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Spirituality in the Workplace: Developing an Integral Model and a Comprehensive Definition

meaning, and a connection to something higher. There d opinions at work really entails, there appear to be a set of common themes that almost all on and an integral d some practical ew paradigm that is emerging in business-Spirituality in the common at almost all sources seem to agree upon. After surveying the current literature in search of these ing the spiritual mindset. ll tion is double than at surveyed four decades ago. (Cited in Barrett, 2004, p. 1) Indeed, the emerging paradigm called "spirituality in the workplace" is conveyed in multiple ways: While chrage (2000) finds that "A fundamental tension between rational goals and spiritual fulfillment now haunts orkplaces around the world," (p. 306), and that "Survey after management survey affirms that a majority want to nd 'meaning' in their work" (p.306), Oldenburg and Bandsuch (1997) state that for quite some time now, mething has been stirring in people's souls: a longing for deeper meaning, deeper connection, greater simplicity, a onnection to something higher. And as Bruce Jentner, president of Jentner Financial Group in Bath, Ohio nderscores the above-mentioned observations by saying, "I have a deep conviction that everybody has a need for mething bigger in life than just making money and going to work" (Goforth, 2001, p. k-2), Kahnweiler & Otte 7) affirm that "work is a spiritual journey for many of us, although we talk about it in different ways" (p.171). Ashmos & Duchon (2000) contribute to the awareness of this paradigm by claiming that there is increasing vidence that a major transformation is occurring in many organizations, and Stewart (2002) exclaims that a survey onducted last spring by the Torrance, California-based human resource strategists Act-1 found that "55 % of the ,000 workers polled consider spirituality to play a significant role in the workplace. In addition, more than a third f that number (34%) said that the role had increased since the September 11, 2001 terrorist acts" (p. 92). A 1999 issue of U.S. News & World Report reveals that "In the past decade, more than 300 titles on orkplace spirituality-from Jesus CEO to The Tao of Leadership-have flooded the bookstores…. Indeed, 30 BA programs now offer courses on this issue. It is also the focus of the current issue of the "Harvard School ulletin." Signs of this sudden concern for corporate soul are showing up everywhere: from boardrooms to company lunchrooms; from business conferences to management newsletters, from management consulting firms to A new awareness has been stirring in workers' souls for at least 10 years now: a longing for a more humanistic work environment, increased simplicity, more are many reasons for this mounting call, varying from the escalating downsizing and layoffs, reengineering, an corporate greed of the 1980s to the enhanced curiosity about eastern philosophies, the aging of the baby boomers, greater influx of women in the workplace, and the shrinking global work village. Straight through the varying about what spirituality sources seem to agree upon. This paper presents a list of these themes; a comprehensive definiti model of spirituality in the workplace, for consideration of future researchers in this field; an strategies for corporate leaders interested in nurturing the spiritual mindset. INTRODUCTION: A RESURGENCE IN AWARENESS This paper presents a brief exploration of a n Workplace. This new awareness has been stirring in workers' souls for at least 10 years now: a longing for a more humanistic work environment, increased simplicity, more meaning, and a connection to something higher. Although there is diversity in opinions about what spirituality at work really entails, there appear to be a set of themes th common themes, this paper presents a comprehensive definition and an integral model of spirituality in the workplace, as well as some practical strategies for corporate leaders interested in nurtur to Morris (1997, p. 7), "Overa Too many people feel unappreciated and insecure in their jobs. According job satisfaction and corporate morale in most places is all time low." Many re-engineering gurus have come to realize that, in their bid to make processes more efficient, they forgot the most essential element of the equation: the people. According to a recent survey of more than 800 mid-career executives, unhappiness and dissatisfaction with work is at a 40-year high. Four out of ten of those interviewed hated what they do. This propor th S w fi so c u so (199 e c 1 o w M B

Spirituality at Workplace: An Essence for the Business

Today's business environment is becoming so challenging and pressurized that there arises a need to create a spiritual workplace in the organisation. Spirituality is " our inner consciousness " (Guillory, 2000). This paper focuses on the core concept of spirituality and its growing role for organisational success. This is a conceptual study and based on observations and secondary sources of data like journals, books, web-sites, newspaper articles. The author has devised a model representing the role of spirituality in organisational success. The devised model establishes a linkage between spirituality at workplace with individual and group level benefits that influences the employees' productivity and organisational performance. Through this study growing role of spirituality at workplace has been highlighted so that management can frame strategies accordingly.

WORKPLACE SPIRITUALITY – A PARADIGM SHIFT IN MANAGEMENT PRACTICES

In the contemporary business scenario majority of the individuals are in thirst to achieve their spiritual needs and on the other hand due to extreme competitive environment the leaders of the organisation require constructive and positive outcomes from the spiritually boosted employees. This makes it very clear that workplace spirituality is becoming an essential element for both job seekers and job providers. The organisational environment consists of people with diversified values, capabilities, cultures, age groups, nationalities, religions but at the same time it is observed that they have common goal to achieve organisational goals and spiritual needs. This paper deals with in workplace spirituality and corporate culture.

Workplace Spirituality in Higher Education

Beder Journal of Humanities, 2013

In today‟s globalised and competitive economy employees are the most significant asset of an organisation. Therefore all organisations in order to increase their organisational performance have to develop strategies to improve and enhance employee‟s quality of life, meaningfulness at work and employees institutional belongings. One strategy to improve human resource quality is giving importance to spirituality at workplace. This study will investigate the benefits of spirituality in higher education system by focusing on spiritual needs and spiritual growth of students and university staff. This study will try to provide suggestions and recommendations for organisations regarding the importance of incorporating spirituality in an academic workplace context.

HR's Crucial Role in the Establishment of Spirituality in the Workplace

Perspectives about what appropriate work-life balance should entail have been changing in the past decade. There is an increasing call for reformulation of values at work, in order to establish greater satisfaction for all stakeholders. And we all know that there is no part of the organization more involved in providing a meaningful workplace, which is increasingly perceived as the most widely accepted view of spirituality at work, than the Human Resource department. This article presents some perspectives on spirituality and spirituality in the workplace, as well as a variety of ways in which HR management can establish and maintain a spiritual work environment, thus ensuring successful organizational performance on a lasting basis.

Workplace Spirituality- A New Paradigm in Management

Ushus - Journal of Business Management, 2017

Workplace spirituality has been researched for a decade and while there have been papers studying the same, it is still not adequately applied in real-time in the workplace. This is due to the major constraint of lack of systems approach to the entire gamut of the input, throughput and output of the workplace spirituality systems and processes. There is also a lot of confusion surrounding the definition and the meaning of the concept of workplace spirituality. This paper attempts to fill this gap in research by putting together the various dimensions of workplace spirituality. It addresses the various implications for organizations and relates it to motives beyond the bottom line for managers and organizations at large. This paper is concluded with a model which may be empirically tested in further studies. The major contribution of this paper is in the form of compiling all major research studies in the form of an empirically testable model.

Workplace Spirituality -A Literature Review

isara solutions, 2022

Workplace Spirituality is emerged as one of the important method to cope up with the challenges which are facing by today's organization. Workplace Spirituality is abstract in nature. It is different from the concept of religion. It is related to concept of connection with self and connection with others. Workplace Spirituality is positively correlated with job satisfaction, employee engagement, ,wellbeing, productivity and negatively correlated with frustration , employee turnover, and stress. Important variables of Workplace Spirituality are sense of connectedness, meaning at work and alignment with organizational values. Workplace Spirituality, Sense of connectedness, meaning at work, Alignment with organizational values. Workplace spirituality will be the trending topic for researchers according to Forbes magazine. Research studies on this trending topic have exponentially risen in the last 20 years

Exploring the Enactment of Spirituality at Workplace

Abasyn Journal of Social Sciences

Workplace spirituality is of interest to the organizational scientists since many years. But substantial research on workplace spirituality is conceptual in nature. Hence, theories developed through these conceptual papers can be misleading if they are not backed by empirical research. The aim of this research paper was to embark on a qualitative empirical research to explore how spirituality is enacted at workplace; how it can enhance the experience of employees; and what are the factors which foster workplace spirituality. The ontological stance is subjective and epistemological stanceis interpretivist. Data was collected though semi structured narrative interviews from 25 employees working in the head office of a not-for-profit organization. Finding shows that spirituality is enactedin the emerging themes of strong leadership, strong organizational culture, value driven nature of work and humanism. It contributes theoretically by empirically exploring factors like trust and respe...

Workplace Spirituality: Themes, Impact and Research Directions

This note is aimed at presenting an overview of the workplace spirituality research in last four decades. First it presents the distinction of religion and spirituality noticeable in the workplace spirituality literature. Next, it summarizes the themes in the scholarship of the field of workplace spirituality. Then it contains the empirical studies about the impact of workplace spirituality. The note is concluded with the importance of workplace spirituality research in current times and the plausible directions in future of the research in this field.