Spirituality and Ethics: A Literature Review

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to review spirituality and ethics literature and to examine how spirituality relates to ethics and leaders/employees' ethical behaviors at work. Within this scope, the papers in the years of 2008-2018 were examined and the relationship between spirituality and ethics were laid out empirically and conceptually. Also, spirituality and ethics were examined in regard to decision making, sustainability, the role they can play in world problems, religion, and secularism. This paper puts forward the effect of spiritualty on ethics and ethical behaviors in the organization, providing recommendations and suggestions to incorporate spirituality to help ethics spread at work.