The relationship of individual spirituality and organizational spirituality with meaning and community at work: An empirical examination of the direct effects and moderating effect models
Leadership & Organization Development Journal
ISSN: 0143-7739
Article publication date: 31 August 2017
Issue publication date: 18 September 2017
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to carry out an empirical examination to assess the nature of effects an employee’s individual spirituality and organizational spirituality have on the employee’s experience of meaning in work and community at work facets of workplace spirituality.
Design/methodology/approach
This paper specifies and examines, using a cross-sectional survey research design, the empirical support for two alternative models – a direct effects model and a moderating effect model – of the likely influences of an employee’s individual spirituality and organizational spirituality on the meaning and community facets of workplace spirituality.
Findings
The findings indicate considerable support for the direct effects model but no support for the moderating effect model. Within the direct effects model, organizational spirituality had much stronger association than employees’ individual spirituality with the workplace spirituality facets of meaning and community.
Research limitations/implications
This study may encourage future research to examine other antecedents of workplace spirituality, and the moderators and mediators of the relationship between organizational spirituality and workplace spirituality.
Practical implications
It suggests to the practitioners that for enhancing employee experiences of workplace spirituality, organizational spirituality implementation is a more effective way than developing employees’ individual spirituality.
Social implications
The study indicates that employees’ spiritual needs of meaning and community at work can be better fulfilled through organizational spirituality implementation than through individual spirituality development.
Originality/value
This is an original empirical examination and its value partly comes from its research implications and practice implications.
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Citation
Pawar, B.S. (2017), "The relationship of individual spirituality and organizational spirituality with meaning and community at work: An empirical examination of the direct effects and moderating effect models", Leadership & Organization Development Journal, Vol. 38 No. 7, pp. 986-1003. https://doi.org/10.1108/LODJ-01-2016-0014
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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