Abstract
Workplace spirituality is of interest to the organizational scientists since many years. But substantial
research on workplace spirituality is conceptual in nature. Hence, theories developed through these
conceptual papers can be misleading if they are not backed by empirical research. The aim of this
research paper was to embark on a qualitative empirical research to explore how spirituality is
enacted at workplace; how it can enhance the experience of employees; and what are the factors
which foster workplace spirituality. The ontological stance is subjective and epistemological stance
is interpretivist. Data was collected though semi structured narrative interviews from 25 employees
working in the head office of a not-for-profit organization. Finding shows that spirituality is enacted
in the emerging themes of strong leadership, strong organizational culture, value driven nature of
work and humanism. It contributes theoretically by empirically exploring factors like trust and
respect, symbolic leadership and strong organizational culture as the constituents of workplace
spirituality and methodologically by studying the subjective depth of workplace spirituality through
narrative interviews which has also been the call of many researchers.
Sania Zaheer Ali, Humera Manzoor, Wisal Ahmed, Usman Ghani. (2019) Exploring the Enactment of Spirituality at Workplace Sania Zaheer Ali, Humera Manzoor, and Wisal Ahmed, Abasyn Journal of Social Sciences, Volume-12, Issue-1.
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