Workplace Spirituality, Job Satisfaction and Organizational Citizenship Behaviors: A Theoretical Model

TLDR: In this paper, the relationship between workplace spirituality, job satisfaction and organizational citizenship behaviors is examined, which can provide significant inputs to promote managerial effectiveness, change management, leadership, holistic performance and growth of organizations through environments which promote workplace spirituality.

Abstract: Workplace spirituality has steadily been gaining attention in the last couple of years. Many researchers have investigated the role of “workplace spirituality” with the aim of generating research data that would firmly entrench this construct as vital in the workplace. This article proposes the relationships between workplace spirituality, job satisfaction and organizational citizenship behaviors. It examines the relationship between three workplace spirituality components–meaning and purpose in work, recognition of an inner life or spirit and interconnectedness with the various forms in which organizational citizenship behaviours manifest, mediated by the job satisfaction experienced by the employees. This study can provide significant inputs to promote managerial effectiveness, change management, leadership, holistic performance and growth of organizations, through environments which promote workplace spirituality.