Employee Attitudes Toward and Perceived Employer Stances on Spirituality at Work in Germany
While spirituality at work is gaining attention in research and practice, we lack empirical knowledge about how many employees wish to bring their spirituality to work, what their employers' stances are, and if employee attitudes match their perceptions of their employers' stances. Using l...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2024
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| In: |
Journal of management, spirituality & religion
Year: 2024, Volume: 21, Issue: 6, Pages: 629-659 |
| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion CB Christian life; spirituality CH Christianity and Society KBB German language area ZA Social sciences |
| Further subjects: | B
SPIRITUALITY AT WORK
B Attitude B EMPLOYEE SPIRITUALITY B MATCHING B WORKPLACE SPIRITUALITY B EMPLOYEE B Work B EMPLOYER STANCE B FAITH AT B HUMAN RESOURCES B Germany |
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| Summary: | While spirituality at work is gaining attention in research and practice, we lack empirical knowledge about how many employees wish to bring their spirituality to work, what their employers' stances are, and if employee attitudes match their perceptions of their employers' stances. Using large-scale quantitative data (N = 2,174) on employees in Germany, we develop a typology of four employee attitudes toward spirituality at work: negative, neutral, positive-ambivalent, and positive, and show how these are distributed across them. Empirically investigating Miller and Ewest's (2015) typology of employers' stances, our results show a duality of perceived employer stances: faithpositive and faith-negative. The largest group of participants has a negative attitude, matching a perceived faithnegative stance of their employer. The second-largest group did not clearly assign a perceived employer stance. As especially younger employees wish to bring their spirituality to work, spirituality in the workplace will likely become more important for employers. |
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| ISSN: | 1942-258X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of management, spirituality & religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.51327/ZKFS3117 |
