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Spirituality and Employee Engagement at Work

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Spirituality is often considered as an important driver of the overall well-being of an individual. Given the significance of spirituality in one’s life, organizations are increasingly making efforts to ensure that employees use spirituality to engage themselves physically, emotionally, and cognitively in their work. The intent of this chapter is to understand the relationship between spirituality and engagement at work and to reflect on its importance to management. It reviews the theoretical foundations of engagement and workplace spirituality over the years. It then lists, describes, and compares different measurement scales for both engagement and spirituality at work. It also examines the “role of spirituality in engaging employees” in the context of existing research conducted in different countries. Based on these reflections, the chapter also provides some implications of this relationship for management practice.

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Gupta, M., Mikkilineni, S. (2018). Spirituality and Employee Engagement at Work. In: Dhiman, S., Roberts, G., Crossman, J. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Workplace Spirituality and Fulfillment. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61929-3_20-1

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