caa a22 4500 605484333 CHVBK 20210128100435.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10551-014-2246-0 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10551-014-2246-0 Roof Richard School of Business and Leadership, Regent University, 23464, Virginia Beach, VA, USA aut The Association of Individual Spirituality on Employee Engagement: The Spirit at Work [Elektronische Daten] [Richard Roof] Employee engagement and spirituality have both been the focus of increasing interest by researchers and practitioners, and both are still early stage theories with ill-defined constructs and definitions. Emergent empirical work related to engagement and spirituality has supported the promise of improving both organizational performance and employee conditions. Responding to the call by theorists to examine engagement antecedents and specifically, the relationship between spirituality and employee engagement, a cross-sectional study was performed to examine self-reported individual spirituality as measured by the DSES and employee engagement measured using the UWES-9 including the dimensions of vigor, dedication, and absorption. 124 usable surveys were collected from a snowballing convenience sample and after confirming demographic representativeness and identifying the individual's organizational role as a potential influential variable, analyses of the relationships between individual spirituality, overall engagement, and three individual engagement dimensions were performed using multiple regression controlling for organizational role. Empirical support was found for relationships between individual spirituality and engagement, vigor, and dedication but not for the engagement dimension of absorption. The findings should encourage further future exploration of the relationship between spirituality and engagement and inquiry into why results differ across engagement's dimensions; specifically, why the relationship was not supported for absorption. The empirical support for spirituality as a predictor of engagement informs practical decisions for addressing workplace spirituality and concerns with the potential to assist in countering the declining engagement trend. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2014 Daily spirituality experience scale nationallicence DSES nationallicence Employee engagement nationallicence Individual spirituality nationallicence Spirituality nationallicence UWES-9 nationallicence Journal of Business Ethics Springer Netherlands 130/3(2015-09-01), 585-599 0167-4544 130:3<585 2015 130 10551 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-014-2246-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-014-2246-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Roof Richard School of Business and Leadership, Regent University, 23464, Virginia Beach, VA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Business Ethics Springer Netherlands 130/3(2015-09-01), 585-599 0167-4544 130:3<585 2015 130 10551