Emotional Ownership and Workplace Spirituality in Nigeria

Abstract

Nigeria workplace has had accumulative incidences of gross laxity and unattached commitment to work due to the social divide between the goal of management and the interest of employees. This study focusses on achieving employees' commitment in the banking sector of Nigeria economy in the midst ofthis social dislocation between management of banks and banks staff in Nigeria. To realize this objective, the banks in south south region were covered in this study. 342 respondent employees of the banks sampled from the region provided the data gathered and amongst the dimensions, employee involvement, incentive and workplace equality were tested using SPSS 15.0. Findings revealed a correlation of the dimensions of emotional ownership and workplace spirituality and recommended that employees should be involved, adequate incentive strategies and equality and fairplay should be encouraged to enshrine workplace spirituality in the banking sector in Nigeria.