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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.
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.
Ushus - Journal of Business Management
Workplace Spirituality- A New Paradigm in Management2017 •
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.
— Previously, workplace was depicted as a place where the goals of task accomplishment were paramount. Over the time, the concept of workplace has expanded to encompass various geographical and psychological boundaries. Nowadays, organizations suffer from business losses, strained relationships with customers, delayed contracts and employee exits. Spirituality has now become an effective tool to handle stress related issues and for overcoming business problems. ―Spirituality‖ has become more oriented on subjective experience and psychological growth. It does not compel people to follow religions and stringent methods but is in fact used as an effective tool to make employees feel that they are an integral part of the organization. The objective of this study is to discuss about the effect of spirituality on workplace, various spiritual approaches shaping the modern organizations that will help employees with personal disorders and other work-related problems. Spirituality draws on the ethics, values, motivation, work/life balance, and leadership elements of an organization. The unique characteristics that differentiate a spiritual organization from others are: strong sense of purpose, focus on individual development, trust and openness, employee empowerment and toleration of employee expression. Spiritual approaches shaping the modern workplace are: God-centred, Ethical, Existential and Buddhist approach. Some recommendations for incorporating spirituality at workplace are: Employee assistance program (EAP), Meditation breaks, listening to spiritual music, honing spiritual skills for better job performance, setting up of a spiritual fund, Taking risks to open one's spiritual self, Bereavement programs and Leadership practices. ‗Mood chart' is a new evolving concept as a part of Employee Assistance Programs (EAP) to enhance workplace spirituality. It is a chart that shows the deviations of mood levels over time and has information on our mood, hours of sleep, and medications. Thus, organizations that encourage workplace spirituality experiences improved organizational performance and profitability. Index Terms— Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Mood chart, organizational performance, spiritual approaches workplace spirituality.
Issues and Perspectives in Business and Social Sciences
The Effect of Workplace Spirituality on Employee Performance2021 •
Employees in the 21st century seek a work environment which allows them to find a sense of purpose at work, within an atmosphere filled with respect and courteous interactions between the employees and their surroundings. The spiritually-oriented work environment is crucial because it shapes employees’ behaviour at the personal level and eventually, improves employee performance. In this paper, a theoretical framework which explains how the spiritual work environment (inner self, community and meaningful work) improves employee performance is presented. This framework can be a reference for organisations in gauging their spiritual work environment, and subsequently incorporating spiritual elements at work as a way to influence employee performance. In return, it contributes to the long-term survival and success of the organisation.
Spirituality has become the buzzword in today's organisations. It has a positive role to play in the organisations while respecting diverse issues. The organisations are emphasizing to foster spirituality in the workplace and it is becoming the fastest growing segment of the corporate culture. This study aims to find the importance of workplace spirituality in selected Information Technology (IT) organisations by finding out the perception of employees regarding workplace spirituality. It also finds the factors that have meaning for the employees in their job. This study is an aid to analyze the level of spirituality of the employees. It was done by distributing a structured questionnaire to the employees in selected IT organisations and by recording their responses. It was found that according to majority of the respondents, workplace spirituality means awareness of self and others. There were several factors that have meaning for the employees in their job and the most important factor considered by the employees was service to the community. It was also found that spirituality has been one of the coping factors in the organisation.
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