Workplace Spirituality

1. Workplace
Spirituality

2. Workplace
Spirituality
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/2278682120908554

3. Defining
Spirituality at
Work

4. Defining Spirituality at Work
• Workplace spirituality involves the effort to find
one’s ultimate purpose in life, to develop a
strong connection to co-workers and other
people associated with work, and to have
consistency (or alignment) between one’s core
beliefs and the values of their organization.
(Mitroff & Denton, 1999)

5. Defining Spirituality at Work
• Cavanagh (1999) defined the concept as “the
desire to find ultimate purpose in life, and to
live accordingly.”
• Ashmos and Duchon (2000) defined spirituality
at work as “recognition of an inner life that
nourishes and is nourished by meaningful
work that takes place in the context of
community.”

6. Defining Spirituality at Work
• Workplace spirituality has been defined as “a
framework of organizational values evidenced
in the culture that promote employees’
experience of transcendence through the work
process, facilitating their sense of being
connected to others in a way that provides
feelings of completeness and joy” (Giacalone
& Jurkiewicz, 2003).

7. Defining Spirituality at Work
• Pawar (2008) defined workplace spirituality as
“employee experiences of self-transcendence,
meaning, and community in the workplace and
it also acknowledges that these experiences
could come from various mechanisms
including organizational ones.”

8. Integrating
Spirituality into
the Workplace

10. Elements of
Workplace
Spirituality

13. Various
Models on
Workplace
Spirituality

14. Figure 1. Model Proposed by Milliman et al. (2003)

15. Figure 2. Model Proposed by Kolodinsky et al. (2008

16. Figure 3. Model Proposed by Pawar (2009)

17. Figure 4. Model Proposed by Vandenberghe (2011)

18. “Personal growth
demands
development
through reflexive
learning and self-
direction, which
amplifies spiritual
development.”