Authors : Al Amin Mydin, Abdul Ghani Kanesan Abdullah, Aziah Ismail, Abdul Jalil Ali and Muhammad Zuhair Zainal
Abstract: The existing literature suggested that in the profitable organizations, workplace spirituality made a remarkable impact. The purpose of this study is to carry out an empirical examination to assess whether the workplace spirituality can enhance organisational commitment. This paper focused on three dimensions of workplace spirituality: Meaning of work, Sense of Community and alignment of values and 3 categories of organizational commitment; effective commitment, continuative commitment and normative commitment. It specified and empirically tested, using a survey design, three hypotheses, each proposing a positive relationship between workplace spirituality and organizational commitment. All three hypotheses were supported indicating that dimensions of workplace spirituality has a positive relationship with affective and continuative commitment. This study, may encourage future research to assess whether various dimensions of workplace spirituality to enhance organisation behaviour. As employee well-being is a matter of social concern, the findings of this study indicating a positive association between workplace spirituality and organizational commitment relevance. To the author’s knowledge, this is the first study to examine the relationship between workplace spirituality and four forms of employee well-being, namely; emotional, psychological, social and spiritual well-being. As employee well-being is an important concern for organizations, the contribution of the study findings is that workplace spirituality implementation can simultaneously enhance multiple forms of employee well-being.
Al Amin Mydin, Abdul Ghani Kanesan Abdullah, Aziah Ismail, Abdul Jalil Ali and Muhammad Zuhair Zainal, 2020. Cultivating Organizational Ambience Through Workplace Spirituality and Organisational Commitment. Pakistan Journal of Social Sciences, 17: 174-178.