Workplace Spirituality and Employee Job Behaviour: An Empirical Investigation in Indian Manufacturing Organizations. Issue 2 (December 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Pradhan, Rabindra Kumar; Jena, Lalatendu Kesari
• Is Part Of: Paradigm. Volume 20:Issue 2(2016:Dec.)
• Page Start: 159
• Page End: 175
• Publication Date: 2016-12
• Subjects: Meaningfulness -- workplace spirituality -- employee engagement -- organizational commitment -- manufacturing organization -- India; Management science -- Periodicals; Industrial management -- India -- Periodicals; 658
• DOI: 10.1177/0971890716670721
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0971-8907

Abstract

Effective employee job behaviour is often driven by suitable work environment that continually provides a meaningful job assignment throughout one's professional career. Recent researches in organizational studies have strengthened the notion of workplace spirituality for creating meaningful job, delight, contentment and hope at work that generate employee engagement, and organizational commitment. Such type of job behaviour is expected to produce better job performance of employees while deriving higher productivity of the organization. Keeping this in view, the present study was designed to examine the role of workplace spirituality in employee job behaviour through the construct of employee engagement and organizational commitment. The findings revealed that factors of workplace spirituality significantly and positively influence job behaviour dimensions. It also reported that workplace spirituality has significant effects on vigour and affective commitment. The meaningful work dimension of workplace spirituality was found to be significant predictors of employee engagement and organizational commitment. The study has a number of implications for academicians and human resource (HR) professionals for devising suitable mechanisms to create individual–organization fitment interventions.