Workplace spirituality and employee work outcomes: A review

Pages:288-293
Namrata Bhattacharyya and Nishat Afroz (Department of Psychology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh)

Workplace spirituality is one of the fastest growing areas of research in management and human development and organizations over the world have sought to incorporate spirituality into their work culture in the hopes of solving modern day work challenges. The relationship between workplace spirituality and employee attitudes has been an important area of research since its inception. Workplace spirituality is a multi-faceted construct and numerous researches over the years have outlined the principal dimensions of workplace spirituality according to their own conceptualizations. The purpose of this paper is to explore the most frequently cited dimensions of workplace spirituality and to study their relation to the most prevalent work-related outcomes by discussing the existing literature, reviewing findings and exploring the theoretical connections between them.