Abundant literature has come upon Workplace Spirituality. Evidence-based studies can also be seen that has explored the impact of spirituality in the workplace. The resultant benefits of the practice of spirituality at the workplace is gaining attention and emphasis. Spirituality is not about religion but about finding meaning, purpose, a sense of interconnectedness and exhilarating experience of a sense of personal transformation, at work in life. Spirituality at work implies that employees look for & make effort to get into the process of doing inner work with self and discover meaning, purpose & connectedness in work & life. In today’s VUCA (Vulnerable/Uncertain/Complex & Ambiguous) context the activity of counselling & therapy, employee engagement & other HR solutions does not suffice to address the issues of intense stress, burn out, not finding meaning at work. In this context, Workplace Spirituality is gaining momentum. Employees pick up spiritual activities & put in an effort to overcome the painful effects of the VUCA context. To what extent do employers realize the seeking spirit & effort of its employees who in their pursuit to feel happy have turned towards spiritual practice, comes to mind. Normally, Corporates are assumed to feel responsible for their employees’ state of being at work & would want to facilitate the employees’ effort to create spiritual synergy (to gain meaning, a sense of community, interconnectedness) and also gain a self-actualizing state. This paper proposes to explore the areas in which corporates can take up the responsibility of enhancing & facilitating spiritual practices at the workplace. The purpose of the paper is to construct a framework of Corporate Spiritual Responsibility in organizations to lead to its performance effectiveness. The companies need to visualise their people management strategies and revolutionise their HRM emphasis to enhance the practice of spirituality in their work context. The study would use secondary research approach through an extensive literature review. It would also do a couple of pilot case studies of individuals at the top level of the organization. The expected outcome of the paper is to construct a rationale based on which to develop a framework of Practices of Corporate Spiritual Responsibility in business organizations. The contribution of this paper is to facilitate an impetus to companies to direct its vision towards corporate spiritual responsibility, by constructing a framework for the same.

Corporate Social Responsibility Guided by Corporate Spiritual Responsibility

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2026年

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Dipti Sethi,
M. Muruganant

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Abundant literature has come upon Workplace Spirituality. Evidence-based studies can also be seen that has explored the impact of spirituality in the workplace. The resultant benefits of the practice of spirituality at the workplace is gaining attention and emphasis. Spirituality is not about religion but about finding meaning, purpose, a sense of interconnectedness and exhilarating experience of a sense of personal transformation, at work in life. Spirituality at work implies that employees look for & make effort to get into the process of doing inner work with self and discover meaning, purpose & connectedness in work & life. In today’s VUCA (Vulnerable/Uncertain/Complex & Ambiguous) context the activity of counselling & therapy, employee engagement & other HR solutions does not suffice to address the issues of intense stress, burn out, not finding meaning at work. In this context, Workplace Spirituality is gaining momentum. Employees pick up spiritual activities & put in an effort to overcome the painful effects of the VUCA context. To what extent do employers realize the seeking spirit & effort of its employees who in their pursuit to feel happy have turned towards spiritual practice, comes to mind. Normally, Corporates are assumed to feel responsible for their employees’ state of being at work & would want to facilitate the employees’ effort to create spiritual synergy (to gain meaning, a sense of community, interconnectedness) and also gain a self-actualizing state. This paper proposes to explore the areas in which corporates can take up the responsibility of enhancing & facilitating spiritual practices at the workplace. The purpose of the paper is to construct a framework of Corporate Spiritual Responsibility in organizations to lead to its performance effectiveness. The companies need to visualise their people management strategies and revolutionise their HRM emphasis to enhance the practice of spirituality in their work context. The study would use secondary research approach through an extensive literature review. It would also do a couple of pilot case studies of individuals at the top level of the organization. The expected outcome of the paper is to construct a rationale based on which to develop a framework of Practices of Corporate Spiritual Responsibility in business organizations. The contribution of this paper is to facilitate an impetus to companies to direct its vision towards corporate spiritual responsibility, by constructing a framework for the same.