scholarly journals Multi-focal Analysis of Workplace Spirituality and Employee Commitment: Exploratory Empirical Assessment

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 179
Author(s):  
Mohamed Fares Brini
Keyword(s):  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Employee Commitment ◽  
Meaningful Work ◽  
Workplace Spirituality ◽  
Organizational Values ◽  
Individual Group ◽  
Multiple Commitment ◽  
Unique Approach ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Focal Analysis

The purpose of this paper was to examine the contribution of workplace spirituality to employee commitment from a multi-focal perspective at the individual, group and organizational levels. Obtained data from a random sample of 111 Tunisian employees were analysed using PLS-SEM to test the proposed hypothesis of the study. The findings revealed that three-dimensional workplace spirituality (meaningful work, sense of community and organizational values) contributed positively and significantly to multiple commitment levels (individual, group and organization levels). Besides, these spiritual dimensions contributed to more than one level and showed that workplace spirituality framework can provide an expanded contribution to the multiple commitment research. In particular, meaningful work had the largest contribution to all commitment levels and can offer unique approach to manage overall commitment within organizations.

Impact of Workplace Spirituality on Organizational Commitment – A Study in an Emerging Economy

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 984-1000
Author(s):  
Mohammed Wamique Hisam, Et. al.
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Commitment ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Turnover Intentions ◽  
Employee Performance ◽  
Meaningful Work ◽  
Workplace Spirituality ◽  
Organizational Values ◽  
Inner Life ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
The Impact

Workplace spirituality has emerged as one of the effective mechanisms to induce organizational commitment, job involvement, creativity, innovation and to reduce employee turnover intentions. This has attracted the attention of researchers worldwide, and there have been several studies on the components and effect of workplace spirituality on employee performance in Western nations. The Covid 19 pandemic has led to job losses and pay cuts across industries, leading to an alarming Increase in stress, depression and alcohol and substance abuse among employees. However, hardly any studies have been conducted on workplace spirituality in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region, leaving a gap in the literature. This study investigates the impact of four dimensions of workplace spirituality namely, meaningful work, inner life, organizational values and sense of community on the organizational commitment of employees working in various organizations in Oman during Covid-19. The study employs survey data collected from 117 respondents across various managerial levels using a structured questionnaire having 20 items. The data has been analyzed using SmartPLS 3 software. The results reveal the impact of the chosen dimensions of workplace spirituality on the organizational commitment of employees. The findings of the study suggest that meaningful work has the highest impact on organizational commitment, followed by inner life and sense of community. Organizational values have been found not to have a significant effect on organizational commitment. Workplace spirituality can have a profound impact on the mental health and wellbeing of employees in these troubled times.

Workplace spirituality and employee loyalty: an empirical investigation among millennials in India

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nimitha Aboobaker ◽  
Manoj Edward ◽  
Zakkariya K.A.
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Turnover Intentions ◽  
Meaningful Work ◽  
Workplace Spirituality ◽  
Organizational Values ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Employee Loyalty ◽  
Intention To Stay ◽  
Content Type

Purpose The purpose of this paper examines the relationship between dimensions of workplace spirituality (meaningful work, sense of community and alignment with organizational values) and employee loyalty (intention to stay, benefit insensitivity toward alternate employers and word of mouth about the organization), in the context of millennials who are three times more likely to change jobs, than other generations. Design/methodology/approach This descriptive study was conducted among a sample of 308 employees, working in private sector organizations in India. Self-reporting questionnaires were administered among the respondents, who were selected through a purposive sampling method and structural equation modeling was done to test the hypotheses. Findings The three dimensions of workplace spirituality had varying influences on the outcomes variables. Alignment with organizational values was positively related to all dimensions of employee loyalty, whereas the sense of community had a positive association with intention to stay and benefit insensitivity while meaningful work indicated positive influence only on benefit insensitivity. The findings, in general, suggest that employees’ experience of workplace spirituality has significant positive influence on their loyalty toward the organization. Originality/value This study is pioneering in conceptualizing and testing a theoretical model linking workplace spirituality and employee loyalty, particularly in the context of millennials, who form 50 per cent of the workforce and reportedly exhibit higher turnover intentions. The study gains relevance in the context of reports about monetary/non-monetary preferences among millennial employees and that the generation is not too keen in working with teams, but would rather prefer working in an organization, which provides space for self-actualization in individual growth. Implications for their experience of workplace spirituality and outcomes are elaborated, thus striving to fill a gap in the existing literature.

scholarly journals THE EFFECT OF WORKPLACE SPIRITUALITY ON AFFECTIVE COMMITMENT AND TURNOVER INTENTION: CASE STUDY ON CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 23-38
Author(s):  
Najmy Haqq Salim ◽  
Dewie Tri Wijayanti ◽  
Andre Dwijanto Witjaksono
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Commitment ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Turnover Intention ◽  
Affective Commitment ◽  
Meaningful Work ◽  
Workplace Spirituality ◽  
Organizational Values ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
The Impact

Purpose of the study: This study aims to analyze the relationship between the dimensions of workplace spirituality, organizational commitment, and turnover intention in the construction industry in Surabaya, Indonesia. Methodology: This study uses a quantitative approach. This research was conducted on a sample of seventy-four employees in eight companies in the Surabaya Construction Industry. The analysis of research uses the Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) - Partial Least Square (PLS) analysis method. Main Findings: The results showed a significant positive effect of meaningful work, a sense of community, alignment with organizational values as working spirituality dimensions​​ on affective commitment. Meanwhile, there is a negative and significant effect of meaningful work, sense of community and alignment with organizational values, and affective commitment on turnover intention. Social implication: The results of this study are expected to provide benefits as a basis for further research in examining the dimensions of workplace spirituality, affective commitment, and return intention and practically as a basis for making other business decisions in reducing turnover intention in the field of corporate human resource management. Novelty/originality of this study: Compared to previous studies examining the impact of working spirituality and organizational commitment partially on turnover intention and more research on the impact of working spirituality on job satisfaction, this study focuses on the analysis of the impact of organizational commitment and working spirituality on turnover intention is still rarely studied.

Workplace Spirituality: Perception of Employees in Selected B-Schools at Kolkata

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Subhadeep Mukherjee ◽  
Soumendra Bhattacharjee ◽  
Seema S. Singha
Keyword(s):  
Meaningful Work ◽  
Workplace Spirituality ◽  
Higher Learning ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Point Scale ◽  
Individual Perception ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Strongly Agree ◽  
The City ◽  
Structured Questionnaire

Now- a – days workplace spirituality is a renowned topic which is gaining gratitude and value among the academicians and industrial people. Workplace Spirituality aims at meaningful work, sense of community and value of organization. It speaks about experiencing and sharing common attachments of people, which attracts and`bond them in togetherness within the workplace and the organization as a whole. The present study is a modest attempt to explore the individual perception about spirituality among the employees (Faculties) in selected B-Schools in Kolkata. The methodology adopted involves a field study using a structured questionnaire as a research instrument which would be circulated among 80 faculties in selected 10 B- Schools in the city of Kolkata. The collected data would be analyzed through Likert 5 Point Scale ranging from strongly agree, agree, neutral, disagree, and strongly disagree. The analysis would be carried out using S.P.S.S. The objective of this study comprises the following: 1. To have an insight about spirituality amongst the faculty members of selected B-Schools. 2. To know the benefits of integrating spirituality in the institutes of higher learning.

Semi-automated methods for 3-D reconstruction of macromolecular complexes

1995 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 42-43
Author(s):  
B. Carragher ◽  
M. Whittaker
Keyword(s):  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Time Saving ◽  
Macromolecular Complexes ◽  
Symmetry Properties ◽  
Dimensional Reconstruction ◽  
Experienced Operator ◽  
Projection Images ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Natural Symmetry

Techniques for three-dimensional reconstruction of macromolecular complexes from electron micrographs have been successfully used for many years. These include methods which take advantage of the natural symmetry properties of the structure (for example helical or icosahedral) as well as those that use single axis or other tilting geometries to reconstruct from a set of projection images. These techniques have traditionally relied on a very experienced operator to manually perform the often numerous and time consuming steps required to obtain the final reconstruction. While the guidance and oversight of an experienced and critical operator will always be an essential component of these techniques, recent advances in computer technology, microprocessor controlled microscopes and the availability of high quality CCD cameras have provided the means to automate many of the individual steps.During the acquisition of data automation provides benefits not only in terms of convenience and time saving but also in circumstances where manual procedures limit the quality of the final reconstruction.

Phonetic iconicity in the evaluative morphology of a sample of Indo-European, Niger-Congo and Austronesian languages

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 156-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renáta Gregová ◽  
Lívia Körtvélyessy ◽  
Július Zimmermann
Keyword(s):  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Sound Symbolism ◽  
Three Dimensional Model ◽  
Austronesian Languages ◽  
Place Of Articulation ◽  
European Languages ◽  
Phonetic Symbolism ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Core Vocabulary

Universals Archive (Universal #1926) indicates a universal tendency for sound symbolism in reference to the expression of diminutives and augmentatives. The research ( Štekauer et al. 2009 ) carried out on European languages has not proved the tendency at all. Therefore, our research was extended to cover three language families – Indo-European, Niger-Congo and Austronesian. A three-step analysis examining different aspects of phonetic symbolism was carried out on a core vocabulary of 35 lexical items. A research sample was selected out of 60 languages. The evaluative markers were analyzed according to both phonetic classification of vowels and consonants and Ultan's and Niewenhuis' conclusions on the dominance of palatal and post-alveolar consonants in diminutive markers. Finally, the data obtained in our sample languages was evaluated by means of a three-dimensional model illustrating the place of articulation of the individual segments.

The Concept of the Individual and Its Scope

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ursula Renz
Keyword(s):  
Strict Sense ◽  
Physical Concept ◽  
Individual Group ◽  
Group Minds ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Individual

This chapter discusses the implications of Spinoza’s concept of individual bodies, as introduced in the definition of individuum in the physical digression. It begins by showing that this definition allows for an extremely wide application of the term; accordingly, very different sorts of physical entities can be described as Spinozistic individuals. Given the quite distinct use of the terms divisibilis and indivisibilis in his metaphysics, however, the chapter argues that the physical concept of individuality is not universally applied in the Ethics but reserved for physical or natural-philosophical considerations. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the problem of collective individuals. It is argued that, while societies or states are described as individual bodies, they do not constitute individual group minds in the strict sense of the term for Spinoza. This in turn indicates that minds are not individuated in the same way as bodies.

The Epistemology of Groups

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Lackey
Keyword(s):  
Group Level ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
Individual Group ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Normative Requirements ◽  
Group Members ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Belief Justification ◽  
In Virtue Of ◽  
Trump Administration

Groups are often said to bear responsibility for their actions, many of which have enormous moral, legal, and social significance. The Trump Administration, for instance, is said to be responsible for the U.S.’s inept and deceptive handling of COVID-19 and the harms that American citizens have suffered as a result. But are groups subject to normative assessment simply in virtue of their individual members being so, or are they somehow agents in their own right? Answering this question depends on understanding key concepts in the epistemology of groups, as we cannot hold the Trump Administration responsible without first determining what it believed, knew, and said. Deflationary theorists hold that group phenomena can be understood entirely in terms of individual members and their states. Inflationary theorists maintain that group phenomena are importantly over and above, or otherwise distinct from, individual members and their states. It is argued that neither approach is satisfactory. Groups are more than their members, but not because they have “minds of their own,” as the inflationists hold. Instead, this book shows how group phenomena—like belief, justification, and knowledge—depend on what the individual group members do or are capable of doing while being subject to group-level normative requirements. This framework, it is argued, allows for the correct distribution of responsibility across groups and their individual members.

scholarly journals Impact of Transparency in the Teamwork Development through Cloud Computing

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 3887
Author(s):  
María Luisa Sein-Echaluce ◽  
Angel Fidalgo-Blanco ◽  
Francisco José García-Peñalvo ◽  
David Fonseca
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Flipped Classroom ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Computing System ◽  
Individual Group ◽  
Learning Space ◽  
Level Of Involvement ◽  
Cloud Computing System ◽  
Common Learning ◽  
The Individual

Active educational methodologies promote students to take an active role in their own learning, enhance cooperative work, and develop a collective understanding of the subject as a common learning area. Cloud Computing enables the learning space to be supported while also revolutionizing it by allowing it to be used as a link between active methodology and students’ learning activities. A Cloud Computing system is used in conjunction with an active methodology to recognize and manage individual, group, and collective evidence of the students’ work in this research. The key hypothesis shown in this work is that if evidence management is made clear and evidence is consistently and gradually presented to students, their level of involvement will increase, and their learning outcomes will improve. The model was implemented in a university subject of a first academic year using the active Flipped Classroom methodology, and the individual, group and collective evidence is constantly worked with throughout the implementation of a teamwork method.

Predictors of Positive Psychological Capital: An Attempt Among the Teacher Communities in Rural Jharkhand, India

2021 ◽  
pp. 0258042X2199101
Author(s):  
Mukti Clarence ◽  
Viju P. D. ◽  
Lalatendu Kesari Jena ◽  
Tony Sam George
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Organizational Support ◽  
Psychological Capital ◽  
Contextual Factors ◽  
Meaningful Work ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Positive Psychological Capital ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact

In the recent times, researchers have shown an increased interest in positive psychological capital (PsyCap). However, it is acknowledged that due to the limited number of studies conducted on the antecedents of psychological capital, there is a lack of sufficient data for conclusively proving the antecedents of PsyCap. Consequently, this article aims to explore the potential antecedents of PsyCap as a reliable source of data in the context of rural school teachers. The focus is to investigate both the individual differences and the contextual factors as desirable variables that constitute PsyCap among the school teachers of rural Jharkhand, India. Samples of 1,120 respondents from different rural schools were collected and analysed with Structural Equation Modeling (AMOS 20.0). The findings of the study explained that both the individual differences ( proactive personality and emotional intelligence) and the contextual factors ( perceived organizational support, servant leadership and meaningful work) have a positive relationship with PsyCap. The impact of PsyCap on teacher performance can form the basis for further research on the subject. JEL Codes: M12, M53

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