A Study of Spirituality in a Public Sector Bank in India

Abstract

Spirituality is becoming more and more a popular field of interest in management. Spirituality in management is about people sharing and experiencing some common attachment, attraction, and togetherness with each other within their work unit and organization as a whole. Managements tend to use more often criteria that relate to connectedness to others in society and connectedness to personal values together with business performance criteria in pursuing growth and development opportunities. The purpose of this study is to determine whether the organization, a leading public sector bank in India, is a spiritual workplace and the employees are spiritually fulfilled at work, whilst living the core values of the bank The results indicate that the employees believe the bank to be a spiritual workplace and they are spiritually fulfilled at work and seem to be living the values. The findings of this study provide an opportunity to assess the employee satisfaction within the organization and to determine the link between spirituality at work and employee satisfaction as well as the link between spirituality at work and living the bank’s core values. Also, it is believed that the results could be replicated across the bank’s entire network, reaping the advantages and benefits of a spiritual workplace.
Keywords: Spirituality, Spirituality in Management, Spiritual Audit, Spiritual workplace, Spiritual fulfillment, Workplace Spirituality.