IMPACT OF WORKPLACE SPIRITUALITY ON ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT

IMPACT OF WORKPLACE SPIRITUALITY ON ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT

Various studies have been conducted from time to time on to study the role and importance of workplace spirituality and organizational commitment. But not much has been done to study the relationship between both these variables i.e. workplace spirituality and organizational commitment.

Thus, the purpose of this article is to find the relationship between both the variables and also to study the impact of workplace spirituality on organizational commitment. In this article workplace spirituality was taken to be an independent variable while organizational commitment was taken as a dependent variable.

The result indicated that there is a relationship between workplace spirituality and organizational commitment. Also there is a significant impact of workplace spirituality on organizational commitment.

WORKPLACE SPIRITUALITY

Workplace spirituality is a domain which is not directly related to God, and but it refers to morality and ethics, meaningful work, and business ethics. Marschke, 2007.

Workplace spirituality inculcates a practice of inter connectivity and a feeling of trust between individuals, who are a part of a particular work process, which subsequently instigate cooperative feelings and lead to an overall organizational culture that is driven by motivation, exemplified by a positive response, and unanimity and harmony among the individuals, consequently, uplifting the cumulative performance of the individuals, and in turn aiding to the organizational excellence as a whole.

ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT

Organizational commitment has been defined as identification and involvement with the organization by believing in the organization's value systems and goals, exerting efforts on behalf of the organization, and desire to remain with the organization. Mowday, Steers, & Porter, 1979.

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The purpose of this article is to find whether there is any impact of workplace spirituality on organizational commitment and the results of this article indicate that there is a positive and significant impact of workplace spirituality on organizational commitment.

When the people experience workplace spirituality they feel more effectively attached to their organization and as a result of which they experience a sense of obligation and loyalty towards their organization.

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CONCLUSION

This article was conducted to find out the impact of workplace spirituality on organizational commitment.

On the basis of the results obtained in the article, it could be seen that there is a significant impact of workplace spirituality on organizational commitment.

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