Spiritual Well-being and Work Performance among Ground-level Employees: Unravelling the Connection

Extant research shows that spiritual well-being and work performance are directly connected. The connection is theorised to be due to the alignment between what employees are spiritually inclined towards and what they do at work. However, research overemphasises the performative benefits of spiritual pursuits and privilege the leaders’ views. These developments, coupled with the prevalent use of quantitative methods, have resulted in one-sided and uncontextualised theorisations that constrict how workplace spirituality is investigated, understood, and converted into action. In response to these gaps, this paper investigates the experiences of ground-level employees to uncover stories of how spiritual well-being may be connected to their work performance. The study uses the qualitative paradigm and narrative inquiry as its methodology to uncover the diverse ways in which spiritual well-being and work outcomes are connected, including ones that diminish or are inconsequential to work performance. There is a need to re-examine accepted knowledge regarding the direct connection between spiritual well-being and work performance and the assumed compatibility of enacting spiritual inclinations in organisational settings. This paper calls for a more nuanced understanding of how spiritual well-being is experienced and the implications these experiences might have on the ground-level employees’ work performance. Even as research unravels this relationship further, prescriptions for practice ought to be qualified, contextualised, tentative, and customised for and by the ground-level employee.

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Leadership Effectiveness and Psychological Well-being: The Role of Workplace Spirituality

Journal of Human Values ◽

10.1177/0971685820947334 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 097168582094733

Author(s):

S. Riasudeen ◽

Pankaj Singh

Keyword(s):

Leadership Effectiveness ◽

Positive Association ◽

Workplace Spirituality ◽

Job Involvement ◽

Well Being ◽

Intention To Quit ◽

Work Outcomes ◽

Significant Positive Association ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Psychological Well Being

The purpose of this article is to examine the relationship of leadership effectiveness and psychological well-being with the work outcomes of intention to quit, job involvement and organization-based self-esteem (OBSE), and whether workplace spirituality plays a role in mediating the associations of leadership effectiveness and psychological well-being with work outcomes. The study is cross-sectional and non-experimental. Data were obtained from 630 information technology (IT) employees from South India, adopting ‘power calculations’. The analysis was performed using SPSS version 20 for Windows and LISREL version 8.72. Results reveal that leadership effectiveness and psychological well-being have a significant positive association with workplace spirituality, and this, in turn, has an impact on the work outcomes of intention to quit, job involvement and OBSE. Workplace spirituality can limit any negative associations of leadership effectiveness and psychological well-being with work outcomes. This research adds to the existing body of knowledge in the spirituality literature by drawing attention to the positive aspects of the interplay between spirituality, leadership transformation and well-being at work. The article concludes that building core values anchoring spirituality would lead to greater connectedness and healthier employee outcomes.

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Spiritual well-being and its effect on individual work performance An exploratory study of the opinions of a sample of employees working at Tikrit University /College of Business and Economics

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences ◽

10.52113/6/2021-11/29-49 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 29-49

Author(s):

RAO Ahmed Ibrahim Hammadi ◽

Tariq Aziz Kurdi ◽

Thaer Jassim Muhammad

Keyword(s):

Human Resource ◽

Random Sample ◽

Exploratory Study ◽

Work Performance ◽

Well Being ◽

Individual Work ◽

Spiritual Well Being ◽

Statistical Program ◽

College Of Business ◽

The Individual

This research seeks to identify the spiritual well-being and its impact on the performance of individual work in the College of Business and Economics / Tikrit University, and to present a number of findings and recommendations that contribute to providing spiritual well-being in the College of Business and Economics and to stand on the level of individual work performance among its employees, and the researcher adopted the approach Analytical descriptive as well as the use of the statistical program (SPSS), where this research was applied to a random sample of (250) employees, and to achieve the objectives of the research, a questionnaire was developed using previous studies in order to measure the study variables, and the research reached a set of results, the most important of which are: Spiritual well-being plays a role Important in the success of the individual work performance of the employees working in the college in addition to the availability of spiritual well-being in an average manner in the intended research sample, as well as the need to adopt some spiritual welfare factors to raise the individual work performance of the employees in the study sample, and the research recommended a set of recommendations, the most important of which is the necessity of involving workers to raise spiritual well-being By promoting the principle of sharing goals for the benefit of the year, and the need for the overall higher management to commit to change, concern for the human resource The person with high spirits in order to educate the staff and the rest of the administrative levels of the faculty researched for this task.

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Workplace spirituality and employee well-being: an empirical examination

Employee Relations ◽

10.1108/er-11-2015-0215 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 38 (6) ◽

pp. 975-994 ◽

Cited By ~ 49

Author(s):

Badrinarayan Shankar Pawar

Keyword(s):

Positive Relationship ◽

Workplace Spirituality ◽

Well Being ◽

Future Research ◽

Multiple Forms ◽

Social Relevance ◽

Empirical Examination ◽

Content Type ◽

Important Concern ◽

Spiritual Well Being

Purpose The existing literature suggests that employee well-being is an important concern for organizations. The purpose of this paper is to carry out an empirical examination to assess whether employee experience of workplace spirituality has positive relationships with multiple forms of employee well-being. Design/methodology/approach This paper focussed on four forms of employee well-being, namely: emotional well-being, psychological well-being, social well-being, and spiritual well-being. It specified and empirically tested, using a survey design, four hypotheses, each proposing a positive relationship between workplace spirituality and one of the four forms of employee well-being. Findings All four hypotheses were supported indicating that workplace spirituality has a positive relationship with emotional, psychological, social, and spiritual well-being. Research limitations/implications This paper may encourage future research to assess whether various forms of employee well-being result from specific dimensions of workplace spirituality. Practical implications Organizations may implement workplace spirituality for simultaneously enhancing multiple forms of employee well-being. Social implications As employee well-being is a matter of social concern, the findings of this study indicating a positive association between workplace spirituality and employee well-being have a social relevance. Originality/value To the author’s knowledge, this is the first study to examine the relationship between workplace spirituality and four forms of employee well-being, namely; emotional, psychological, social, and spiritual well-being. As employee well-being is an important concern for organizations, the contribution of the study findings is that workplace spirituality implementation can simultaneously enhance multiple forms of employee well-being.

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The Professional Self-Esteem of Physicians Scale, Structure, Properties, and the Relationship to Work Outcomes and Life Satisfaction

Psychological Reports ◽

10.2466/pr0.1997.80.2.591 ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 80 (2) ◽

pp. 591-602 ◽

Cited By ~ 17

Author(s):

Sara Carmel

Keyword(s):

Life Satisfaction ◽

Work Performance ◽

Well Being ◽

Self Esteem ◽

Work Outcomes ◽

Work Related ◽

Scale Scores ◽

Professional Self ◽

The Relationship ◽

Structure Properties

This paper presents a scale to measure the professional self-esteem of physicians. It describes the scale's theoretical basis, psychometric properties, and its value for explaining physicians' well-being. Statistical analyses, conducted on data from two independent studies of physicians in Israel ( ns = 214 and 122), indicate internal consistency and construct validity of the scale. Scores on professional self-esteem are associated positively with life satisfaction and work satisfaction and negatively with burnout. Scores also correlate significantly with global self-esteem and with anxiety. The professional self-esteem scale appears to be a useful tool for explaining professionals' work performance, work-related well-being, and general well-being.

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