Workplace Spirituality as a Predictor of Job Satisfaction: An Empirical Study among Teachers in Higher Education
摘要
The decadal surge in factors accounting for workplace performance, job satisfaction and well-being identified number of elements amounting to growth and development of an organization. Incidentally, workplace spirituality emerged to be a crucial index for job satisfaction and overall well-being of individual. The present investigation attempts to explore the impact of workplace spirituality on job satisfaction of teachers in private colleges of management and technology education, because private institutions of these two domains are perceived to be more pressurized and need coherence among employees. Sample size of the current study is one hundred and fifty (N = 150) teachers of private colleges (management and technology) located in Lucknow and Varanasi. To collect data, Minnesota satisfaction questionnaire was used to measure job satisfaction while workplace spirituality was measured utilizing Human spirituality scale and organizational spiritual values scale was used. The results indicated that workplace spirituality is a significant predictor of job satisfaction. Results revealed a strong positive relationship between Job Satisfaction and both Organizational spirituality (r = .611, p < .001). Regression analysis further emphasized that these two factors, i.e., Personal spirituality and Organizational spirituality (r = 0.268, p < 0.001), account for 42.8% of job satisfaction (R2 = .428, p < .001). This underscores the importance of spirituality at organizational as well as personal levels in enhancing job satisfaction.