Sustainable Careers under Spiritual Leadership and Workplace Spirituality: A Subordinates’ Perspective during Covid 19
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Authors | Ali, H., Shahid, T., Timsal, A. and Naseer, S. |
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Abstract | When engaging in career planning every employee tends to work towards achieving meaningful career success over time. Careers have also become a focal point due to the devastations of global pandemic on organizations and general public all around the world. Where it has halted functioning of different sectors such as tourism, airline or retail industry, yet health care industry has experienced increased workload on an already saturated and overburdened health sector of Pakistan. This research is conducted to examine the relationship between spiritual leadership, workplace spirituality and maintaining sustainable careers over time in health sector of Pakistan. Spiritual leadership enhances these dimensions. Workplace spirituality works as a promoter for exhibiting spiritual leadership styles at workplace. They strengthen employees by enhancing their self-fulfillment and by nourishing different streams of their careers goals. Sustainable career consist of work experiences assumed over time while providing meaning to the individual. It is measured through indicators of health, happiness and productivity in different dimensions of time, person and context. The present study examines relationship between spiritual leadership, workplace spirituality on maintaining sustainable careers during turbulent times of pandemic. The study was conducted in health sector of Multan, Pakistan. Data is collected through interviews and qualitative analysis is performed. Verbatim method is used to report the results for analysis purpose. Our findings attest that employees were generally satisfied with a spiritual workplace and spiritual leadership but their health, happiness and productivity were affected differently when dimensions of time, person and organizational’ context were changed. This study will contribute more insights for literature of sustainable career and spirituality at workplaces. |
Keywords | Sustainable Career; Spirituality ; Career Longevity |
Year | 2023 |
Journal | Review of Applied Management and Social Sciences |
Journal citation | 6 (1), pp. 89-103 |
Publisher | SPCRD Global Publishing |
ISSN | 2708-2024 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.47067/ramss.v6i1.286 |
Web address (URL) | http://ramss.spcrd.org/index.php/ramss/article/view/286 |
Publisher's version | License File Access Level Open |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
Online | 26 Mar 2023 |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 01 Aug 2023 |
https://repository.derby.ac.uk/item/9zz3v/sustainable-careers-under-spiritual-leadership-and-workplace-spirituality-a-subordinates-perspective-during-covid-19
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