دانلود رایگان مقاله انگلیسی معنویت کارکنان و عملکرد شغلی: نقش انگیزه درونی و ایجاد فرصت های شغلی - اشپرینگر 2018

Abstract

This study aims to examine how employees’spirituality influences their job performance and its mediated link through intrinsic motivation and job crafting. Working with a sample of 306 employees in South Korea, the results indicate that employees’ spirituality is positively related to their intrinsic motivation, which in turn results in engagement in job crafting and hence is positively related to job performance. That is, the findings of this study show that the relationship between employees’spirituality and their job performance are sequentially and fully mediated by intrinsic motivation and job crafting. This study advances understanding of the positive effect of employees’ spirituality on job performance by considering employees’ spirituality as a personal resource based upon the Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) model.

Conclusion

Although previous studies have anecdotally claimed that spirituality increases various outcomes such as work unit performance (Duchon and Plowman 2005), organizational commitment (Markow and Klenke 2005), and ethical decisionmaking (Beekun and Westerman 2012; Giacalone and Jurkiewicz 2003a), there is a shortage of empirical evidence documenting the positive effect of employees’ spirituality on their job performance and the psychological process that underlies it. To shed light on the process mechanism, we hypothesized and tested the relationships between employees’ spirituality, their intrinsic motivation, job crafting, and job performance based on the Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) model (Schaufeli and Bakker 2004) and self-determination theory (SDT) (Deci and Ryan 1985). The results of this study extend previous research on employees’ spirituality and job performance by suggesting that job resources and selfdetermination-based motivation are key underlying mechanisms of job performance.