Workplace spirituality as a moderator in relation between stress and health: An exploratory empirical assessment

Kumar, Vineet; Kumar, Sandeep

doi:10.3109/09540261.2014.924909

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“…Numerous studies have shown that Christian and non-Christian prayer can have beneficial effects. An Indian research study revealed that workplace spirituality moderates the negative relationship of stress and health, and positively correlates with health (Kumar and Kumar, 2014). Benevene and Fiorilli (2015) comparing burnout of Catholic consecrated teachers with lay teachers from Italian public and Catholic schools pointed out that teachers from public schools obtained higher means on the emotional exhaustion and depersonalization dimensions (Benevene and Fiorilli, 2015).…”

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Spirituality and Prayer on Teacher Stress and Burnout in an Italian Cohort: A Pilot, Before-After Controlled Study

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Introduction: Teaching is a stressful profession that exposes workers to the risk of burnout. Techniques involving higher mental functions, such as transcendental meditation and prayer, have been used in stress and burnout prevention programs. In this study, we report the results of an experience conducted in a group of teachers of a religious institute, in which prayer was used as a technique to prevent burnout. Methods: Fifty teachers and support staff employed at a Catholic school of a Congregation of nuns volunteered for this study. They were randomized into two groups: prayer treatment (n = 25) or control group (n = 25). The treatment protocol was based on the combination of individual Christian prayer and a focus group of prayer-reflection. The participants received two 30 min training sessions a week over 2 months. Job satisfaction, well-being, and burnout symptoms (emotional exhaustion and depersonalization sub-scales) were measured at baseline and at followup (4 months) with the Italian versions of the Maslach Burnout Inventory validated for teaching and education sector, the General Health Questionnaire, and the Warr, Cook, and Wall's Job Satisfaction Scale. Results: At follow-up, a significant improvement of all outcome measures was observed. Emotional exhaustion (16.80-4.92, p < 0.001), depersonalization (3.72-0.60, p < 0.001) levels, and psychological impairment (10.08-2.04, p < 0.001) were significantly decreased, and job satisfaction (45.96-77.00, p < 0.001) was increased. The effect sizes (Glass') of the therapeutic interventions ranged from 0.53 (satisfaction level) to 2.87 (psychological health), suggesting moderate to large effects. Discussion: Prayer could be effective, no less than meditation and other spiritual or mind-body techniques, in contrasting the negative effects of occupational stress and preventing burnout among teachers and possibly other human service professionals.

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Spirituality and Prayer on Teacher Stress and Burnout in an Italian Cohort: A Pilot, Before-After Controlled Study

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“…A few isolated examples of workplace spirituality serving as mediator or moderator in models of the relationships between other variables (e.g. Kumar and Kumar 2014) are now beginning to appear, indicating that the construct's development continues to progress.…”

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The what, why, and how of spirituality in the workplace revisited: a 14-year update and extension

Houghton

Neck

Krishnakumar

2016

Journal of Management, Spirituality & Religion

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Over the past two decades, conceptual and empirical research on the concept of workplace spirituality has increased and expanded significantly. An early and influential article by Krishnakumar and Neck (2002, Journal of Managerial Psychology 17 (3): 153–164) helped provide direction and structure to the nascent field of workplace spirituality by examining the “what” – the definitions and meanings of multiple views of workplace spirituality, the “why” – the potential benefits for organizations from encouraging such differing views of workplace spirituality among their members, and the “how” – the ways in which spirituality may be encouraged or implemented within organizations. The current paper provides a retrospective update and extension of the Krishnakumar and Neck (2002) “what, why, and how” framework and “spiritual freedom” model. More specifically, the paper reviews the development and expansion of the workplace spirituality literature over the past decade and a half and considers the potential contributions of a number of contemporary leadership approaches including self-leadership, shared leadership, and authentic leadership to spirituality in the workplace. The paper concludes with an examination of key directions for future research in the workplace spirituality domain.

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“…From the worker point of view, maintaining productivity requires a self-motivation effort that goes beyond financial rewards [5,6]. In order to support employees in this motivational task, organizations are making efforts with different approaches [7,8]. One of these approaches has been discussed in the organizational changes literature as workplace spirituality, which was defined as "the recognition that employees have an inner life that nourishes and is nourished by meaningful work than takes place in the context of community" [9,10].…”

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Workplace Spirituality: Sustainable Work Experience from a Human Factors Perspective

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It is important to note that spiritual matter here is not about a religious, but a human centered view based on self-awareness, life purpose and community engagement. These three aspects of spirituality are the predominant perspective in the literature of organizational changes. These organizational changes are defining new paradigms for work relationships and impacting work environments. Some of these new paradigms are related to work motivation and job satisfaction, which are highly connected to organizational sustainability. Therefore, we choose to investigate workplace spirituality in order to move towards sustainability. In fact, there are already some reviews about workplace spirituality, and the most cited one organizes the topic in three dimensions: first, the inner life dimension that remains in self-centered matters such as identity and values; second, the sense of purpose dimension that refers to work significance perception; and lastly, the sense of community dimension that remains in connection and engagement. Okay, if we already have reviews about that, what is the point? In this review, we choose the predominant perspective on workplace spirituality to turn theoretical discussions into manageable human factors that are expressed by relationship needs at three levels: intrapersonal, interpersonal and institutional. With this new organization of the theme, we expect to support managers to perform actions focused on the type of relationship that is desired to be strengthened. From the review, we identify a total of twelve human factors organized by these three relationship levels, each one with four human factors. The main contribution of this study is a systematic review of workplace spirituality based on a human factor perspective.

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Workplace spirituality as a moderator in relation between stress and health: An exploratory empirical assessment

Cited by 61 publications

References 27 publications

Spirituality and Prayer on Teacher Stress and Burnout in an Italian Cohort: A Pilot, Before-After Controlled Study

Spirituality and Prayer on Teacher Stress and Burnout in an Italian Cohort: A Pilot, Before-After Controlled Study

The what, why, and how of spirituality in the workplace revisited: a 14-year update and extension

Workplace Spirituality: Sustainable Work Experience from a Human Factors Perspective

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