Workplace Spirituality Case Study

Work place spirituality begins from early 1920 because of employees need &wants to live with their faiths and values at the workplace. The movement is primarily US centric but now it is international in recent years. For some people it is considered that spirituality have religious connection (Neck and Milliman, 1994). Although, historically much of the interest in spirituality is originated from religion. Today spirituality at workplace does not have link with any specific religion but it has its own values and philosophy (Cavanagh, 1999; Mitroff and Denton, 1999). Spirituality has different meaning and has different contents in different religions. Christian’s view for spirituality is “call for work”. For Hindus “working with utmost devotion

The ever alarming threat of hire and fire policies has made created a sense of insecurity among employees. Employees are drowned in to stress and poor mental health resulting in absenteeism and work life imbalances (Schor, 1993). Hyatt, James. (2005) conversations around the value and place of spirituality in the workplace have been further pushed by the need for managers and leaders to behave more ethically in the world and to foster ethical decision-making in their workforces. Karakas and Fahri (2010) observed that incorporating spirituality at work increases employees' well-being by increasing their commitment, morale, and productivity and reduces stress, & burnout at the workplace. Researchers also believe that spiritual individuals tend to perceive the ethical nature of business issues more clearly (Giacalone and Jurkiewicz, 2003). II. REVIEW OF LITERATURE Concept of

and Raney, V. (2014) researched that spirituality leads to decreasing stress and there is no difference on the basis of gender. Spirituality also leads to intuition that increases the creativity that results to improvement of work. Organisations that encourage spiritual connection at work experiences peace of mind that leads to higher profits and success. McGhee and Grant (2008) Spirituality has a positive link to the organisational performance and leads to ethical behaviour at personal level or organisational level. Giacalone and Jurkiewicz (2003) studied that individual spirituality significantly influences their perception of unethical business practices. Degree of spirituality influences whether an individual perceives a business practices as ethical or not. Workplace spirituality helps to enhance ethical environment at workplace. Luidolf Bosch(2009) described the role of spirituality to handle three main problems that are faced by the management named morality, stress, and lack of compassion and love. Spirituality has a significant role in enhancement and development of leadership, learning and communication in the modern business. G.F.Cavanagh, (1999) concluded that spirit in business brings the vision and enthusiasm to the work environment. An executive will be more successful if he takes spirit seriously. It is also concluded that spirituality at the work place also helps a businessman to gain better perspective for the firm, family,