Workplace Spirituality And Its Relationship To Leadership - A Literary Review And Critique -

Workplace spirituality is defined as employees’ transcendental experiences through workplace activities which lead to completeness and joy. Based on this definition, spiritual leadership indicates a leader’s ability of inspiring and motivating other organization members through “calling” and “membership”. In order to identify relations of these concepts, two selected articles were critiqued. First, Reave’s research provided literary evidence of the relationship between spiritual values and leadership effectiveness. While her research focused on the characteristics of effective leader, subsequent research is needed to concretize environmental contexts and consider leader-follower fit. Second, Duchon & Plowman (2005) examined the relationship between work unit spirituality and work unit performance and made inferences about the role of leaders. Though the sample is so small and the composition of sample is somewhat biased, this research presented the potential of empirical study about workplace spirituality.