An overview of workplace spirituality and its likely relationship with employee well-being

Abstract

This chapter provides an overview of workplace spirituality and outlines the likely relationship between workplace spirituality and employee well-being. It briefly describes workplace spirituality and indicates how it can help address some of the ethical dilemmas involving employee-organization relationships. This chapter outlines specific employee experiences associated with workplace spirituality and addresses some of the reasons for increased interest in the subject. Select organizational outcomes of workplace spirituality (e.g., positive work attitudes) are discussed. Also, this chapter describes different forms of well-being, and hypotheses are developed to capture likely relationships between workplace spirituality and employee well-being. Several case studies are used to illustrate the hypotheses.