Investigating the Contribution of Workplace Spirituality on Advancement of Organisational Citizenship Behaviour: An Empirical Study at Higher Learning Institution

Abstract

Thepresentstudyisanattempttocanvasstheroleof‘Workplace Spirituality'on organisationalcitizenshipbehaviours (OCBs). All aspects of workplace spirituality (sense of community, meaningful job and inner life) have a positive link with OCBs. The objective of present study is to investigate the relationship between workplace spirituality and OCB of teaching and non-teaching employees of an engineering college in respect of positive organisational commitment among employees and whether the commitment conciliates the relationship between the two. This paper tries to identify the level of spirituality and OCB of employees in private engineering colleges. OCB means individual behaviours that are advantageous to the organisation but not openly acknowledged by the formal reward system in an organisation. This paper identifies the sense of spirituality, and employees in private engineering colleges in Bhubaneswar area. Moreover, this paper identifies the relationship of these factors with OCB and impact of these factors on OCB. It is understood that spirituality may emphatically contribute more in the formation of more strong ground for OCB to penetrate in an organisation. In this research, the researcher is seeking to use the concepts of the link between two variables-workplace spirituality and OCBs. Teaching as well as non-teaching employees of B. Tech. institutes were surveyed using a self-administered questionnaire. The result of partial least square regression analysis shows a very significant association between all the aspects of workplace spirituality and OCB.