Understanding Religion As a Phenomenon in Workplace Sprituality: A Durkheimian Approach

Baykal, Elif

doi:10.37898/spc.2021.6.2.134

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“…The therapist has a big contribution here, in explaining the dangers of covid-19 and the benefits of handling it to clients (A. . By providing a more rational explanation through a religious approach, the therapist can go further into the client's dimension of consciousness, namely cognitive-religious (Baykal, 2021). When discussing the cognitive-religious aspects in the perspective of Islam, the therapist must be able to show the rationality of each Islamic teaching to the client (Faraz et al, 2022).…”

Section: Dimensions Psycho-religiousmentioning

confidence: 99%

Psychoreligious Dimensions on Therapy Perspective in the Middle of the Covid-19 Pandemic

Sarnoto¹,

Rahmawati

Hamzah

2022

Psikis

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This paper examines the psychoreligious dimensions in a therapy perspective, which can be performed on people affected and those who are not affected by the 2019 corona virus (Covid-19), because pandemic situations often cause social chaos, and are often even discovered from religious thought and the socio-religious community. The kind of research in this paper is library research, using a qualitative-philosophical approach. The data were analyzed by using the Religious Cognitive Emotional Theory (RCET). This study found; first, physical healing efforts require realistic religious thinking to explain that the purpose and meaning of their life is very important, and keeping the body healthy is the most important teaching of religion. Second, the therapy process can be carried out by the therapists by directing clients into three main dimensions: psycho-religious, cognitive-religious, and spiritual-religious. The findings in this study contribute to increasing the treasures of thought in therapy disciplines in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Section: Dimensions Psycho-religiousmentioning

confidence: 99%

Psychoreligious Dimensions on Therapy Perspective in the Middle of the Covid-19 Pandemic

Sarnoto¹,

Rahmawati

Hamzah

2022

Psikis

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Exploring individuals' workplace spirituality in the context of their work teams: A qualitative multi‐case, multi‐team study

McClurg

Ellinger

McWhorter

et al. 2023

Human Resource Dev Quarterly

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Spirituality has been associated with a person's desire to perform meaningful work and to feel connected with the community that is being served through this work. Since most adults spend a large amount of their productive hours at work pursuing meaning and purpose in their jobs, the concept of workplace spirituality (WS) has gained considerable attention. The nature of work has also increasingly shifted to the use of teams of expert talent to solve complex problems, thus calls for further research on team member behaviors that effect team productivity and team member motivation have been made. With the prevalence of work teams, a better understanding of individuals' WS in work teams is needed, yet, limited empirical research has been conducted on this topic. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to better understand how individuals express and experience WS within their work teams and how their WS influences their work teams. A qualitative multi‐case, multi‐team design was employed using face‐to‐face, semi‐structured individual interviews, collective work team interviews, observations, and field notes as the primary approaches to data collection. Data analyzed in this study using thematic analysis included 19 individual team member interviews, and six collective team interviews representing a total of six teams across two organizations. The findings and contributions of this study are presented, along with a future research agenda.

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Rethinking ethical climate: conjoint elevation of life satisfaction and customer-orientation through a stronger inner life

Baykal,

Bhatti,

Irfan

et al. 2024

JOCM

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PurposeIn this study, to empirically test the relationship between ethical organizational climate, inner life (IL) and life satisfaction (LS) of employees, a field study was conducted on white-collar personnel working in the service sector in the Istanbul region. The main purpose was to extract an approach that could be applied to simultaneously boost LS and customer orientation for effective service delivery by organizations.Design/methodology/approachA two-wave time-lagged survey design was used to collect the data over a period of three months. Two sets of self-administrated survey questionnaires were developed for both waves, containing the details of the study and items for measuring variables. The questionnaires were developed in such a manner that the anonymity of the respondents and ethical considerations remained intact. In the first wave, data were collected for two variables, i.e. organizational ethical climate and IL. The measurement scale for organizational ethical climate was adapted from the study of DeBode et al. (2013) and for IL from the study of Fry et al. (2017). In the second wave, data on the remaining two variables (LS and organizational customer orientation) were collected. Direct effects and indirect effects in the hypotheses were tested by structural equation modeling (SEM).FindingsThis study has found that the organizational ethical climate strengthens the inner lives of employees, which is vital for the organizations from two angles: one, strong IL of an employee enhances his/her own LS and two, stronger IL accentuates customer orientation.Research limitations/implicationsThe fact that the context of this study is limited to Turkey and that the participants are selected from among white-collar personnel working in the service sector reduces the representativeness of the research result. In this sense, in the next stages, the model of the research can be retested in different industries or cross-cultural studies can be designed by comparing the study results with samples from different geographies, so that the validity of these relations for different cultures can be seen.Practical implicationsThe implications of this study revealed that employees will enjoy their lives more when authorities in organizations adopt organizational policies supporting the inner lives of employees, feel respect for their private areas and make the organizational climate more ethical. Hence, with practices such as workplace spirituality or spiritual leadership that support the inner lives of employees, the motivation and satisfaction of employees can be increased.Social implicationsThis study revealed that inner life strength makes people comparative more ethical in their dealings, which gives them a sense of achievement and enhances work meaningfulness, boosting LS and customer-orientation. The findings of this study are vital for leaders, as they can achieve a conjoint elevation of the LS of their employees and enhance customer orientation for higher organizational performance.Originality/valueThis study is original in emphasizing the positive effect of spiritually powerful inner-life customer-orientedness in employees with empirical proof.

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Understanding Religion As a Phenomenon in Workplace Sprituality: A Durkheimian Approach

Cited by 6 publications

References 47 publications

Psychoreligious Dimensions on Therapy Perspective in the Middle of the Covid-19 Pandemic

Psychoreligious Dimensions on Therapy Perspective in the Middle of the Covid-19 Pandemic

Exploring individuals' workplace spirituality in the context of their work teams: A qualitative multi‐case, multi‐team study

Rethinking ethical climate: conjoint elevation of life satisfaction and customer-orientation through a stronger inner life

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