This investigation was endeavoured to study the influence of the hospital's spiritual climate on nurse's work engagement in Saudi Arabia.Creating a safe clinical environment for nurses to express their spirituality despite preferences or religiosity is essential to increase work productivity, satisfaction and commitment.This quantitative and cross-sectional research surveyed a convenience sample of 302 nurses employing the 'Utrecht Work Engagement Scale' and 'Spiritual Climate Scale'.The overall average of the respondents in work engagement was 4.33 (SD = 1.10), with more nurses reporting high or very high work engagement (53.7%). The hospital, age and spiritual climate were recognized as significant predictors of 'vigour'. The hospital's spiritual climate was the only significant factor influencing nurses' 'dedication'. The hospital and spiritual climate significantly influenced the variable 'absorption'.Having a positive hospital spiritual climate was associated with better work engagement among nurses.The findings underscore the significance of ensuring that hospitals have positive spiritual climate and a clinical area that respects, accepts and welcomes various spirituality of nurses. Therefore, nurse managers should ensure that the spirituality of nurses has a safe home in the hospital. 

Work engagement of nurses and the influence of spiritual climate of hospitals: A cross-sectional study.

Promoting innovative work behaviour and employee wellbeing has become essential as it endows companies with competitive advantages to thrive in today's complex business environment. This study investigates the role of workplace spirituality in inducing innovative work behaviour and employee wellbeing based on the social exchange theory and the spillover theory. It also looks at the previously unexplored mediating function of employee engagement in the relationship between workplace spirituality and the outcomes above. Additionally, it examines the interactive effect of workplace spirituality and individual spirituality on employee engagement. Two waves of survey data were collected from 538 employees and their managers working in the IT sector in Pakistan. This study contributes to the expanding corpus of research on workplace spirituality, confirming that the latter positively influence innovative work behaviour and employee wellbeing. The mediating effect of employee engagement on the relationship between workplace spirituality and innovative work behaviour and employee wellbeing is also significant. Further, the results confirm that the influence of workplace spirituality on employee engagement is contingent on the degree of individual spirituality. Theoretical contributions and practical implications are discussed. 

Employee engagement, innovative work behaviour, and employee wellbeing: Do workplace spirituality and individual spirituality matter?

Researchers have acknowledged that highly engaged employees go the extra mile and innovate to move their organisations forward. This kind of thought generates the concept of workplace spirituality (WPS). Workplace spirituality identifies that by nature employees are spiritual and seek purpose and meaning in their work. This meaningful work is a significant predictor of employee engagement. The chapter draws our attention towards workplace spirituality and employee engagement and documents to understand workplace spirituality as an antecedent of employee engagement with reference to meaningful work. Meaningful work is a least understood need of the employees that requires more research and desired steps to be undertaken by the organisations to have engaged employees. This chapter contributes by theoretically developing the relationship between these two streams, that is, WPS and employee engagement, and also highlights the measures adopted by Indian firms to spiritually engage their employees at workplace.

Vandana Sharma

Papers

Workplace Spirituality as a Predictor of Employee Engagement