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Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences & Humanities

Official journal of Universiti Putra Malaysia for scholarly work across the social sciences, humanities and related interdisciplinary fields.

e-ISSN 2231-8534 ISSN 0128-7702
Research article

A Study of Spirituality at Work and Organisational Commitment of University Teachers

Thakur, K., Singh, J. and Kaur, P.

KeywordsIntention to stay, Mystical experience, Organisation commitment, Sense of community, Spirituality at work
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Abstract

Organisations today are not only concerned with skills and qualifications of employees but are also looking for workforce who can integrate their body, mind and soul with the work and maintain cordial work relationships. Incorporating spirituality at the workplace has now become an important need of the day. The present study is intended to explore the relationship between demographic profiles of individuals and spirituality at the workplace. Further, this study focuses on the relationship between organisational commitment and spirituality at work. For the present study, descriptive research design was used and data was collected using questionnaire containing items on both constructs. The study findings outline that gender has a significant impact on sense of community while age bears no impact on this factor. In contrast, age has a significant impact on intention to stay whereas gender has no impact on one's intention to stay. Additionally, spirituality at work and organisational commitment are found to have considerable relationship. Spirituality at work can be compared with other aspects such as leadership styles, work-life balance, organisation citizenship behaviour and organisation culture. This research can further be extended to other industries and an industry wise analysis can be carried out.