Towards a Conceptualization of Karma Yoga

Rastogi, Ashish; Pati, Surya Prakash

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“…The concept of Lokasangraha has been depicted in Bhagavad Gita (verse 3.14) as a model of universal consciousness that connects all human beings. Rastogi and Pati (2014) asserted that everyone in society has some assigned duty whose performance is mandatory to maintain world order. Modern spirituality literature defines Lokasangraha in terms of transcendence.…”

Section: Workplace Spiritualitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Workplace Spirituality and Employee Well-being: An Empirical Exploration

Garg¹

2017

Journal of Human Values

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The popularity of concept of spirituality is increasing exponentially in the field of human resource management. Both academicians and practitioners are looking at spirituality to solve modern day human resource challenges. Spirituality at work is about search for meaning or higher purpose, connectedness and transcendence. The present research article addresses conceptual and empirical gap using the concept of workplace spirituality and empirically examines relationship between workplace spirituality and employee commitment, job satisfaction and work–life balance satisfaction. The article successfully augments literature by suggesting one more dimension (Karma Capital) of Indian spiritual values. This is one of the pioneer studies that used necessary condition analysis (NCA) to explore workplace spirituality. Workplace spirituality was reported as a necessary determinant of employee commitment, job satisfaction and work–life balance satisfaction. Relationship between these variables is further investigated through correlation matrix and regression analysis.

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Section: Workplace Spiritualitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Workplace Spirituality and Employee Well-being: An Empirical Exploration

Garg¹

2017

Journal of Human Values

141

128

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“…It means inspiring people to come together for pursuit of welfare of the society (Sebastian, 2003;Sharma, 1999). Rastogi and Pati (2014) defined lokasamgraha as 'service consciousnesses'. In simple world, every individual has his own duty to be performed and contribute to the maintenance of world order.…”

Section: Swadharmamentioning

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Promoting Organizational Performance in Indian Insurance Industry: The Roles of Workplace Spirituality and Organizational Citizenship Behaviour

Garg

2018

Global Business Review

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Interest in spirituality as a scholarly topic has grown in recent years. The present research aspires to investigate the relationship between workplace spirituality and organizational performance. First, necessity of workplace spirituality for organizational performance is investigated with the help of necessary condition analysis (NCA). Second, mediation effect of organizational citizenship behaviour (OCB) in relationship between workplace spirituality and organizational performance is explored with the help of technique propagated by Baron and Kenny (1986). Hierarchal regression is used to test Baron and Kenny’s (1986) conditions of mediation. Results of NCA establish workplace spirituality as a necessary condition for occurrence of organizational performance. The OCB is also reported to partially mediate the relationship between workplace spirituality and organizational performance. Practical implications, limitations of the study and suggestions for future researchers have been discussed in the last part of the article.

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“…Rastogi et al (2019) defined KY "as a persistent positive mental state that is categorised by absorption and service consciousness". Absorbed individuals tend to be engrossed in activities at hand, and individuals with service consciousness tend to look after other's welfare selflessly (Rastogi & Pati, 2015). It is argued by Rastogi and Pati (2015) that the service consciousness dimension of KY explained by them is in line with the duty-orientation dimension of KY by Mulla and Krishnan (2012) and Hannah et al (2014).…”

Section: Karma-yogamentioning

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“…Absorbed individuals tend to be engrossed in activities at hand, and individuals with service consciousness tend to look after other's welfare selflessly (Rastogi & Pati, 2015). It is argued by Rastogi and Pati (2015) that the service consciousness dimension of KY explained by them is in line with the duty-orientation dimension of KY by Mulla and Krishnan (2012) and Hannah et al (2014). Thus, to achieve this, individuals have to discharge their duties with full dedication; dedication in action has to be without a thought about its fruit.…”

Section: Karma-yogamentioning

confidence: 99%

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Transformational Leadership and Follower’s Perceived Group Cohesiveness: Mediating Role of Follower’s Karma-yoga

Muppidathi

Krishnan²

2020

Business Perspectives and Research

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This article looks at the relationship between five sub-dimensions of transformational leadership (idealised influence attributed, idealised influence behaviour, inspirational motivation, intellectual stimulation and individualised consideration), follower’s karma-yoga and follower’s perceived group cohesiveness. Data were collected in a research and development organisation in India, from 771 employees (561 male and 210 female) with minimum 5 years of work experience in that organisation. Partial least squares structural equation modelling PLS-SEM analysis shows that four sub-dimensions of transformational leadership—idealised influence attributed, idealised influence behaviour, inspirational motivation, and intellectual stimulation—are positively related to follower’s perceived group cohesiveness. In addition, this relationship is partially mediated by the follower’s karma-yoga. Focusing on increasing the frequency of idealised influence attributed, idealised influence behaviour, inspirational motivation and intellectual stimulation of managers will result in making the employees more karma-yoga oriented; both these will result in increasing the follower’s perceived group cohesiveness in the organisation, making the work environment more harmonious and productive.

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Towards a Conceptualization of Karma Yoga

Cited by 22 publications

References 37 publications

Workplace Spirituality and Employee Well-being: An Empirical Exploration

Workplace Spirituality and Employee Well-being: An Empirical Exploration

Promoting Organizational Performance in Indian Insurance Industry: The Roles of Workplace Spirituality and Organizational Citizenship Behaviour

Transformational Leadership and Follower’s Perceived Group Cohesiveness: Mediating Role of Follower’s Karma-yoga

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