The Use of Spirituality at Work to Enhance Lecturers' Scientific Publications Performance: The Mediating Effect of Job Satisfaction

Abstract

Purpose: The research is conducted to analyze the performance of scientific publications by lecturers in private higher education in Garut District-Indonesia with the values of spirituality and job satisfaction as mediating variables.   Theoretical Framework: Resource-Based Theory (RBT) is employed to elucidate the correlation between work spirituality, job satisfaction, and the lecturers performance of faculty members in publications.   Design/Methodology/Approach: The research method used is descriptive and causalitas. Data collection was carried out by distributing questionnaires to a sample of 157 people. Before being analyzed, the data was tested for its validity and reliability. Furthermore, data analysis was performed using statistical software.   Findings: The analysis result shows that the performance of scientific publication of lecturers is influenced by spiritual values in the workplace, such as calmness of mind when working, the outcome of work meeting the organization's expectations, the usefulness of the work that can help others, and also supported by job satisfaction, such as career satisfaction, having a pleasant job, and supportive colleagues.   Research/Practical & Social implication:  Practically, in this study, the model can function as a significant management tool in the world of education, especially higher education, to increase the sustainability of competitive advantage that has the potential to affect organizational performance. Employee performance is also an important factor in supporting organizational success. Thus this can be an attention for the organization to improve the performance of lecturer publications.   Limitation: This research has several limitations that need to be taken into account and can provide direction for future research; because this research only analyzes from the perspective of private universities, so in the future it can also be from the perspective of state universities. The sample size is also only taken from one university only, so future research can be expanded again from various universities.   Originality/Value: Although many studies have been conducted on lecturer performance, there are still few that analyze the scientific publication performance from the values of work spirituality, especially in private higher education, so this research is considered to have uniqueness especially in Indonesia.