A Study on Gender Differences and Relationship between Spiritual Belief and Job Satisfaction

Abstract

The purpose of the present study was to study the relationship between spirituality and the level of job satisfaction among the employees working in educational and manufacturing sectors. The sample consisted of 200 employees from various sectors such as Education and Manufacturing sectors. Purposive sampling technique was used to collect the data. The sample was administered Spiritual Index scale and job satisfaction scale developed by Mahendran P. and Singh and Sharma respectively. The descriptive statistics, ‘t’ test and correlation test were used to verify the hypotheses. The findings reveal that there is a significant relationship between Spirituality or spiritual belief and the job satisfaction. Further study revealed that there are no gender differences in experiencing Job satisfaction and spirituality or spiritual belief except two dimensions of spirituality i.e., Transcendence and Religiousness where in females are more into the above-mentioned dimensions of spirituality than males.