Do Religion and Spirituality in the Workplace Matter?

2022 ◽  
pp. 17-41
Author(s):  
Bradley Saunders ◽  
Hanan Naser ◽  
Fatema Alaali
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Behavior ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Personal Values ◽  
Religion And Spirituality ◽  
Core Concept ◽  
Organizational Goals ◽  
Business Context ◽  
The Core ◽  
Spirituality In The Workplace ◽  
The Impact

Although spirituality in the workplace has recently received extensive attention from many researchers in the field of management, it has often been interchanged with the term religion. Yet religion is neglected. According to Vitell, religion contributes to setting a framework for moral and ethical behavior in a business context, creating a spiritual workplace that is aligned with organizational goals and has a positive impact on productivity and profitability. Therefore, there is a need to conduct more investigations not only to explain the core concept of each, but also to evaluate the effectiveness of each and their integration in the workplace. This chapter addresses the increased demand to better conceptualize, define, and contrast the concepts of religion and spirituality in the workplace. In addition, the impact of leaders' life standards and personal values on behavior in the workplace are examined, with attention on the discussion of the impact of religion and spirituality.

scholarly journals Antecedents of organizational commitment of insurance agents: Job satisfaction, ethical behavior, and ethical climate

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 134-149
Author(s):  
Weihui Fu ◽  
Feng He ◽  
Na Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Organizational Commitment ◽  
Ethical Behavior ◽  
Ethical Climate ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
The Other ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Insurance Agents ◽  
Ethical Climates ◽  
The Impact

This research explored the impact of job satisfaction, the ethical behavior of coworkers, successful managers, and employees themselves. Also explored were six types of ethical climate on organizational commitment and its three dimensions, including affective, continuance, and normative commitment through an investigation on 476 Chinese insurance agents. The empirical results showed that ethical behavior of coworkers and a caring climate had a significantly positive impact on both organizational commitment and its three dimensions, while independence climate had no significant influence on overall organizational commitment or its three dimensions. Job satisfaction, ethical behavior of successful managers and employees themselves, and the other five types of ethical climates only had a significant impact on organizational commitment or some of its dimensions.

scholarly journals Perceived Roles of Ethics and Social Responsibility, Internal Corporate Social Responsibility and Employee Engagement of Academicians

2018 ◽  
pp. 706-717
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Employee Engagement ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Future Generation ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Business Context ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
The Impact

The echo of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is often heard in the contemporary business management since the last four decades. CSR continuously getting attention due to the ever changing business landscape. As CSR marks its notion of importance in the business context, its roles, and values among academicians who are entrusted to educate the future generation remains ambiguous. Current research aims to look into the impact of perceived roles of ethics and social responsibility (PRESOR) and Internal CSR on the Employee Engagement among academicians in the education setting. Judgemental sampling method is used to locate the targeted respondents and data collected is analysed using Partial Least Squares Equation Modeling. The results reveal that PRESOR has a positive impact on Internal CSR. Internal CSR has no significant impact on Employee Engagement among academicians and its’ indirect effect between PRESOR and Employee Engagement is also found to be insignificant. The findings contribute by providing some insights on the role of ethics and social responsibility among academicians in the education sector. Education institutions may wish to look into other means to increase academicians’ employee engagement instead of ethics and social responsibility.

scholarly journals Do ethical concerns and personal values influence the purchase intention of fast-fashion clothing?

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tara Stringer ◽  
Gary Mortimer ◽  
Alice Ruth Payne
Keyword(s):  
Animal Welfare ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Personal Values ◽  
Ethical Consumption ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
Fashion Industry ◽  
Fast Fashion ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Ethical Concerns ◽  
The Impact

PurposeThe rise of fast fashion has changed the face of global fashion. Despite sector growth, critics have questioned the level of obsolescence, encouragement of over-consumption and fast fashion's unsustainable business practices. Specifically, mounting concerns surround the impact on environmental, worker and animal welfare. Accordingly, the aim of this current work is to understand the influence of consumer's values on ethical consumption in a fast-fashion context.Design/methodology/approachAn online survey was designed to collect responses relating to personal values and ethical concerns towards animal and worker welfare issues, as well as environmental concerns. A total of 350 US-based fast-fashion consumers completed the survey via Amazon MTurk. Factor analyses and structural equation modelling were used to analyse and test a theoretically hypothesised model.FindingsThis study found that self-transcendence values and openness to change values have a positive impact on consumers' levels of ethical concern towards animal welfare, the environment and worker welfare concerns within the fashion industry. Furthermore, a consumer's level of concern towards animal welfare and the environment positively influences a consumer's likeliness to purchase ethically marketed fast fashion.Originality/valueThis is the first study to investigate the role of consumer values and their influence on ethical concerns within the fashion industry and the impact of these concerns on intentions to purchase ethically marketed fast fashion. Responding to calls for further research into ethical consumption of apparel, this study includes all elements of ethical consumption identified, including animal welfare. This study identifies ethical areas of concern salient amongst fast-fashion consumers and provides a deeper understanding of the values impacting the level of ethical concerns surrounding animal welfare, the environment and worker welfare.

Crook!: The impact of perceived corruption on non-electoral forms of political behaviour

2019 ◽  
pp. 019251211988171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raffaele Bazurli ◽  
Martín Portos
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Driving Force ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Political Interest ◽  
Political Behaviour ◽  
The Core ◽  
Vested Interests ◽  
Electoral Mobilization ◽  
The Impact

Anti-corruption claims have been at the core of many mass mobilizations worldwide. However, the nexus between corruption and collective action is often overlooked. Bridging social movement and corruption studies, this article contends that believing in extensive corruption has a positive impact on non-electoral forms of participation. But this effect is uneven across the population and contingent upon the individual’s political interest and education. Using survey data from 34 countries, the analysis confirms that people prefer non-electoral mobilization when institutions are seemingly captured by vested interests. Moreover, perceiving endemic corruption is likely to breed indignation among lesser-educated and less politically interested citizens, who are keener to embrace anti-elitist arguments and ultimately engage in extra-institutional behaviour. These findings help refine theories of societal accountability, which generally assume that politically sophisticated citizens are the driving force in the fight against corruption.

scholarly journals ICT ENABLED IMPLEMENTATION OF STRATEGY - EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM SERBIAN CUSTOMS SERVICE

2017 ◽  
pp. 175
Author(s):  
Sanja Dalton
Keyword(s):  
Performance Indicators ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Service Strategy ◽  
The Core ◽  
Top Managers ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Computerized System ◽  
Survey Questionnaires

In this paper ICT enabled implementation of Serbian Customs Service Strategy is presented. The aim of the research is to measure and analyze the impact of ICT on successful implementation of the Organization’s Strategy. The research was conducted by survey –questionnaires and personal interviews with the Customs Service Senior Management and Top Managers. The data was also collected by using secondary data (customs reports). The results show that the new computerized system has a positive impact on key performance indicators improvement that is the core goal of the Strategy.

scholarly journals The Impact of Motivation on Employee’s Performance in some Public and Private Schools in Talata Mafara

1970 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-29
Author(s):  
Khaltumi S.G Mustapha
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Employee Performance ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Employee Motivation ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Organizational Goals ◽  
Intrinsic Reward ◽  
The Impact

Employee motivation is considered as a force that drives the employees toward attaining specific goals and objectives of an organization. Nowadays motivation has become one of the most indispensable factors in management toward the achievement of organizational goals. There nothing more central to management than the question of human motivation. The main objectives of the study are to find out that what kind of motivation factors influence Nigerian employee and also to find out to which extent motivation affect the employee performance. 200 data are collected from teachers from some selected public schools and private in Talata Mafara and by using self-administered questionnaire. A Structured interview was also carried out with the management of the schools. Descriptive analysis is applied is applied to find the effect of employee motivation on employee performance involving five variables. Employee promotion, employee motivation, employees performance, employee perceived training effectiveness, and intrinsic reward. The result of this work shows that there is positive and significant relationship exist between employee motivation and employee performance. It also show that promotion and intrinsic reward has positive impact on employee performance.

Impact of Spirituality in Management

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geeta Sachdeva
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Systems ◽  
Meaning Of Work ◽  
The Core ◽  
Spirituality At Work ◽  
Spirituality In The Workplace ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Changeover Period

In today's times, we live in the changeover period between the ancient meaning of work as subsistence and the new meaning of work as a livelihood. Novel management methods and new organizational systems are necessary to keep up with this emergent context. Spirituality in the workplace states that personnel seek nourishment for both the extents, i.e. their vertical and horizontal, extents of their spirituality at work. It is about people and organizations perceiving work as a spiritual pathway, as a chance to cultivate and to do something for humanity. It is all about care, empathy, and sustenance of others, about truthfulness and persons being truthful to themselves and others, endeavoring to live their values more effusively while performing their work. The present chapter stresses the impact of spirituality in management. The study concludes that for any organization to run efficiently, spirituality is the core to attain happiness, contentment, and success at the same time.

scholarly journals Job satisfaction and organizational citizenship behaviour of employees in companies in the Republic of Serbia

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 61-71
Author(s):  
Biljana Đorđević ◽  
Maja Ivanović-Đukić ◽  
Vinko Lepojević ◽  
Sandra Milanović
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Organizational Citizenship ◽  
Psychological Contract ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Organizational Goals ◽  
The Republic ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Impact

Organizational citizenship behaviour is a form of employees' behaviour where employees go beyond their formal duties required by job description. Despite the fact that this form of behaviour is not recognized or accepted by the reward system, employees are ready to put in an extra effort in order to achieve organizational goals. However, the readiness of employees to manifest this form of behaviour is not completely unconditional. Numerous empirical studies suggest that such behaviour can be encouraged by employees' job satisfaction, fulfilment of their psychological contract, perception of a high level of organizational justice in the company, support provided to them, etc. Having in mind the importance of this form of employees' behaviour, precisely from the point of view of employers, as well as the factors that influence it, this paper examines the impact of employees' job satisfaction on the level of their organizational citizenship behaviour on the example of the companies in Serbia. The paper starts with three hypotheses. The first and second hypotheses are that employees in companies in Serbia are satisfied with their jobs and that they demonstrate organizational citizenship behaviour. These assumptions were tested using the t-test. The third hypothesis is that employees' satisfaction with their job has a positive effect on their organizational citizenship behaviour. In order to test this hypothesis, methods of correlation and multiple regression analysis were used. The analysis is based on data obtained by primary research realized during 2019. In the research, 244 employees participated. The research showed that there is a positive relationship between respondents' job satisfaction and organizational citizenship behaviour, as well as the positive impact of job satisfaction on organizational citizenship behaviour of employees. This paper's contribution is twofold. First, it provides empirical data regarding the job satisfaction and organizational citizenship behaviour of employees in companies in Serbia. Second, it adds to the existing literature from this field by proposing strategies for increasing the employees' job satisfaction, which will lead to increasing the employees' willingness to manifest organizational citizenship behaviour.

scholarly journals Leveraging human resources management (HRM) practices toward congruence of values

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-94
Author(s):  
Maureen Gelle-Jimenez ◽  
Hector M. Aguiling
Keyword(s):  
Performance Management ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Personal Values ◽  
Human Resources Management ◽  
Core Values ◽  
Organizational Strategies ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
The Core ◽  
Hr Management ◽  
The Impact

Core values are critical to an organization’s identity, mission, strategy, and success.  Harmonizing personal values and the core values espoused by the organization addresses congruence gaps and ensures that the actions of employees are consistent and aligned with organizational strategies. This study aims to identify the HR management practices of a University in Manila, Philippines that promote the congruence between the personal values of employees and the core values of the organization.  The qualitative research methodology was utilized to identify practices in the areas of Recruitment and Selection, Performance Management System, and Training and Development that promote congruence of values.  Semi-structured interviews of key University officials were conducted using open-ended questions. A review of relevant and pertinent documents was also undertaken. The three identified HR functional areas are highlighted because these are critical in the selection, motivation, and retention of high-quality employees.  Leveraging HR management practices to promote congruence entails that the values of the organization are well-defined.  Employees must understand how these are translated into workplace behaviors and actions.  It must be clearly laid down how these relate to their performance and the impact these have on the achievement of the overall goals of the organization.

scholarly journals IMPACT OF BUSINESS EDUCATION ON CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY (CSR)

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rana Jimshaid Asghar ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Business Education ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Simple Random Sampling ◽  
Organizational Goals ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
The Impact

Objective:- Corporate social responsibility is basically focused by the organizations for the better environment of the organization. A Current study has discussed some variables which have direct and indirect impact on CSR, Such as Business education, Manager Profile, subordinate of ethics and social responsibility. This research explored the impact of Business education on CSR. Methodology:- Education sector was selected for the analysis and is quantitative approach. The sampling technique was simple random sampling with the sample of 300 employees. A Standardized questionnaire was used for the data collection. The results were analyzed by using Multiple Regressions on AMOS. Findings:- Reliability of the variables are shown as, Manager Profile was (69%), Business Education (80.7%), subordinate of ethics and social responsibility reliability (83.8%). Findings show positive impact of manager’s profile and business education on CSR. Practical Implications:- As managers are the leaders of the organization and the whole organizational environment based on managerial performances. If management is active and efficient ethically and socially towards the employees and the organizational goals it’s obvious that organizational performance will be positive.

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