The Effect of Workplace Spirituality to the Job Satisfaction of Higher Education Business Professors

International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS) | Volume VI, Issue VI, June 2022 | ISSN 2454–6186

The Effect of Workplace Spirituality to the Job Satisfaction of Higher Education Business Professors

Fe Violeta G. Baluran
De La Salle University

Abstract: Workplace spirituality is one subject that has appealed to many. In the midst of challenges, people resort to spirituality. Many realize the true meaning of life through spirituality. It has meaningful work, sense of community and alignment of values as its dimensions and studies done on the subject show its positive relationship with other variables such as job satisfaction, job engagement , organizational commitment, job control, ethical climate, self-efficacy, job performance, organizational performance and so on. This study aims to validate the effect of workplace spirituality on job satisfaction among higher education professors of business subjects. A survey was deployed to 38 business professors from colleges and universities and data was analyzed by Jamovi 1.6.23 version. Data was tested for normality, reliability, multicollinearity and heteroscedasticity The result showed that workplace spirituality has a significant effect on the job satisfaction among business professors regardless of age, gender, religion, civil status or employment status. Further studies can be done by covering other professions, increasing the population, adding more variables or inserting mediating or moderating variables, or a qualitative research can be done on the subject extensively to prove that it can help address human resource challenges and will make the workplace conducive to productivity and profitability.

Keywords: workplace spirituality, job satisfaction, meaningful work, sense of community, alignment with organizational values

I. SECTION

1.1 Introduction

An ideal workplace is a workplace consisting of people who are productive because they know their purpose and they find joy in fulfilling their purpose. This is so because they find meaning in their work, purpose in their life, connectedness with co-workers and their values are aligned with the organization’s values. The increasing interest in workplace spirituality may be due to the lack of the aforementioned characteristics of an ideal workplace. Indeed, spirituality, when integrated into the workplace, contributes the elements mentioned above. Cash and Gray (2000) as cited by Rathee, et. al.(2020), stated that the ubiquitous appeal in workplace spirituality was precipitated by an unpredictable work environment characterized by new technologies, reengineering, and downsizing. Spiritual solutions are sought by demoralized employees who seek to the consequent stress and tensions (Mitroff and Denton , 1999 as cited by Rathee, et. al.,2020). The need of the hour for the present corporates is to experience a new angle of enriched workplace culture with honesty, trust, creativity, personal fulfilment and improvised commitment of employees to organizational goals

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