Spirituality at the workplace and its role on organizational justice


Jamshid Salehi Sadaghiani, Jafar Beikzad, Sackine jafary and Saeid Ghorbannejad Maleki


Spirituality and ethics play important roles in bringing justice for many business units. During the past few years, there has been growing concern on thinking about profitability without considering other aspects such as spirituality. The infamous Enron incident has been a crystal clear of a case of thinking just on short-term profitability without considering other ethical issues. Spirituality helps organizations create ethical values, responsibility and job satisfaction among workers and these issues could increase business competitive advantages. In this paper, we study the impact of spirituality on different levels of individual, workspace and organizational for a real-world case study. The survey results of this paper indicate that spirituality could significantly impact the organization in different levels.


DOI: j.msl.2011.07.005

Keywords: Spirituality ,Working environment ,Efficiency ,Competition

How to cite this paper:

Sadaghiani, J., Beikzad, J., jafary, S & Maleki, S. (2012). Spirituality at the workplace and its role on organizational justice.Management Science Letters, 2(1), 391-396.


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