THE IMPLICATIONS OF WORKPLACE SPIRITUALITY AND WORKPLACE ATTITUDES ON JOB PERFORMANCE: A LITERATURE REVIEW

Abstract

Workplace spirituality is widely acknowledged to associate in a desirable direction with valuable work attitudes such as job satisfaction, organizational commitment and employee involvement. These work attitudes are also widely reported to relate in a desired manners with the various dimensions of job performance. However, these different accounts are not contextualized. Different journals, periodicals, books and other related materials represent various accounts of the role of workplace spirituality. This paper reviewed the studies and brought the various account together within the context of the relationship between workplace spirituality and workplace attitudes and the implications on job performance. The significance of this approach is that bringing together the dominant findings in a single document may make them appealing and convincing for adoption and application by organizational practitioners. The linkage between the variables was theoretical and evidenced-based. Spiritual leadership theory and affective event theory offered support for the pattern of relationships that is revealed in several empirical studies.