Integration of Christian Values in the Workplace (original) (raw)

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The research objective was to evaluate work outcomes of employee engagement, job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and organizational spirituality with independent variables from the Fruit of the Spirit including love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. The study was conducted with 176 employees. For statistical purposes, correlation and multiple regression analyses were performed with the data using IBM SPSS Statistics version 21. Based on the findings, the Fruit of the Spirit are beneficial to workplace outcomes of employee engagement, job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and organizational spirituality. Each of the nine fruits correlated to those four workplace outcomes, and specifically, this research found that love, kindness, and self-control can predict employee engagement; joy and gentleness can predict job satisfaction; love can predict organizational commitment; and love and peace can predict organizational ...

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