Workplace Spirituality and the Selling Organization: A Conceptual Framework and Research Propositions

Badrinarayanan, Vishag; Madhavaram, Sreedhar

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“…Badrinarayanan and Madhavaram [5] in their study titled "A Framework of the Workplace Spirituality and the Selling Organizations," indicates "sacralization of work" as a consequence of the workplace spirituality dimensions of inner self, meaningful work, and connectedness, claiming "Sales organizations that support workplace spirituality can influence salesperson-related outcomes such as sacralization of work, spiritual well-being, ethical behavior, job commitment, and job satisfaction (p431)." In trying to suggest a solution, Krahnke, Giacalone and Jurkiewicz [47] give future researchers a possible direction, suggesting that researchers explore the ways to integrate spirituality into business to be of service to people's spiritual development rather than find ways to use "spirit" as a tool for the profit in the business.…”

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An Analysis of Workplace Spirituality Debates

Göçen¹,

Özğan²

2018

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While calls for spiritual practices at work increase, the debate to position the concept of Workplace Spirituality (WS) gets thornier. This paper offers a theoretical contribution to the existing debates about spirituality in the workplace in that it addresses the issues of (a) religion, spirituality, and secularity (b) capitalizing the human soul, (c) measuring spirituality, specifically WS (d) indoctrination, (e) the trendy nature of WS. The need for meaning and fulfillment for a greater cause is a long-craved one in organizations. Profit-based organizations have started to consider using spirituality to increase their financial returns by making room for pragmatic spiritual practices, while ontological disputes still continue about whether spirituality could be an asset for inducing profit. Our study starts with a general look at workplace spirituality, continues with criticism and debates rose about "spirituality and a spiritual workplace," and ends with our clarifications regarding these issues.

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Section: B) Workplace Spirituality and Financial Goals: Capitalizing mentioning

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An Analysis of Workplace Spirituality Debates

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2018

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“…It has beneficial effects across various kinds of organizations, currently influenced by technological innovations ( De Carlo et al, 2020 ) and through environment sharing ( Ivaldi and Scaratti, 2019 ). Spiritual workplaces encourage employees’ sense of community, recognize their spiritual-mystical needs, foster feelings of engaging in meaningful work, and support integrity, respect, responsibility, and personal growth (see Garcia-Zamor, 2003 ; Giacalone and Jurkiewicz, 2003 ; Duchon and Plowman, 2005 ; Badrinarayanan and Madhavaram, 2008 ; Kinjerski, 2013 ). Empirical support was found for workplace spirituality as a predictor of several positive organizational outcomes ( van der Walt and de Klerk, 2014 ), such as performance ( De Carlo et al, 2016b ; Do, 2018 ; Rahman et al, 2019 ).…”

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Positive Supervisor Behaviors and Employee Performance: The Serial Mediation of Workplace Spirituality and Work Engagement

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Organizational research has highlighted the crucial role of supervisors in promoting employee well-being and performance. According to the motivational approach, supervisors positively influence employees' outcomes by enhancing their positive feelings. In this study, we examine how positive supervisor behaviors may improve employee performance through the serial mediation of workplace spirituality and work engagement. Data were collected from 330 Italian employees. Results showed that supervisor integrity and responsible behaviors have a positive effect on employee performance directly; moreover, positive supervisor behaviors influence performance indirectly, through both the partial mediation of work engagement and the serial mediation of workplace spirituality and work engagement. The present study highlighted that supervisors should behave responsively and honestly to trigger a virtuous motivational process in their employees, which leads to boost their performance. The practical implications of these findings are discussed.

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“…Thereafter some arguments are put forward in respect of the knowledge requirements of the habitus. Badrinarayanan and Madhavaram (2008) accentuate that, in their paper, workplace spirituality is not foremost conceptualised as an individual -I refer to it as a 'personal' -trait or state, but as an organisational characteristic (Badrinarayanan & Madhavaram 2008:424). To emphasise then: The interest of practical-theological facilitation is firstly on the outer dimension as opposed to the clerical paradigm.…”

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Practical-theological facilitation as skilled helping

Pienaar

2013

HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies

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The article discussed the idea of skilled helping in relation to what has been put forward as practical theological facilitation. It has been argued that various helping relationships, amongst which the author refers to coaching, facilitation, and therapy has more in common than what differentiates them if epistemology is viewed as a unifying concept. As such the scope of practical theology in terms of the contexts and themes in which it might be involved is said to widen. The public dimension of the organisational context, more so than the congregational context, has been put forward as an important habitus of practical-theological facilitation. The organisational involvement of the practical-theological facilitator in terms of professional-vocational skilled helping takes on an actual role through facilitation and other helping modalities

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Workplace Spirituality and the Selling Organization: A Conceptual Framework and Research Propositions

Cited by 59 publications

References 3 publications

An Analysis of Workplace Spirituality Debates

An Analysis of Workplace Spirituality Debates

Positive Supervisor Behaviors and Employee Performance: The Serial Mediation of Workplace Spirituality and Work Engagement

Practical-theological facilitation as skilled helping

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