Hello Aryeh,
I am so glad to hear about your continued research.
I have developed the Spirit at Work Scale (SAWS) which is a measure of
spirit at work at the individual level. The SAWS assesses employee
engagement, sense of community, spiritual connection, and mystical
experience. I presented this instrument at last year's Academy of Management
where it received best paper award. The reference for the manuscript is:
Kinjerski, V. & Skrypnek, B.J. (2006). Measuring the Intangible: Development
of the Spirit at Work Scale. In K. Mark Weaver (Ed.), Proceedings of the
Sixty-fifth Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (CD) ISSN 1543-8643.
A copy of the longer version (which I distributed at the AOM) is on my
website. I have since validated the SAWS and, not surprisingly, found
correlations with job satisfaction, organizational commitment,
organizational culture, spirituality, etc. We currently have a manuscript
under review. In another study, we found that we can increase spirit at work
and as it increases so does job satisfaction, organizational commitment,
teamwork, and morale while absenteeism and turnover goes down. Another
manuscript under review.
Another measure that you might wish to look into is Mathew Sheeps
Person-Organization of Workplace Spirituality. His paper won the AOM Best
Paper Award in 2005. I don't know where he is at with regard to development,
but here are the details.
Title: NAILING DOWN GOSSAMER: A VALID MEASURE OF THE PERSON-ORGANIZATION FIT
OF WORKPLACE SPIRITUALITY.
Authors: Sheep, Mathew L.
Source: Academy of Management Proceedings; 2004, pB1-B6, 6p
Document Type: Article
Subject Terms: MANAGEMENT science
PERSONNEL management
PSYCHOLOGY, Industrial
SPIRITUALITY
WORK environment
NAICS/Industry Codes: 56111 Office Administrative Services
Abstract: This article proposes a measurement scale for person-organization
(P-O) fit of workplace spirituality. The scholarly investigation into
workplace spirituality can be traced to the early 1990's. The author
proposed that a conceptual convergence can be demonstrated to exist based
upon a review of the workplace spirituality literature from 1994 to 2003.
The convergence occurs in four recurring themes that are traceable as common
dimensions of workplace spirituality throughout the literature: first,
self-workplace integration; second, meaning in work; third, transcendence of
self; and fourth, personal growth and development of one's inner life at
work. One perspective of P-O fit is that of a complementary relationship
between individual preferences vis-á-vis member perceptions of the level of
organizational supplies of those preferences. The spiritual preferences that
members bring to the workplace are expectations of the work organization to
nourish, facilitate, or supply the four components of workplace
spirituality. Organizational supplies are conceptualized as member
perceptions of workplace environment and resources such as reward structures
and communication patterns that are either congruent or incongruent with
spiritual preferences.
Author Affiliations: 1College of Business, University of Cincinnati,
Cincinnati, OH 45221-0165
ISSN: 0896-7911
Accession Number: 13862520
Persistent link to this record:
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=vfh&AN=13862520&site=e
host-live
Database AOM Archive
Lastly, Ashmos and Duchon were the first to come up with a measurement
looking at the individual, team, and organization. References to their work
follows.
Ashmos, D. & Duchon, D. (2000). Spirituality at work. Journal of Management
Inquiry, 9 (2), 134-145.
Duchon, D. & Plowman, D.A. (2005). Nurturing the spirit at work: Impact on
work unit performance. The Leadership Quarterly, 16, 807-833.
Good luck with your research. Please contact me if you are interested in
using the SAWS for your research.
Regards,
Val
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Val Kinjerski, PhD
Spirit at Work
Speaker, Facilitator, Consultant
Kaizen Solutions for Human Services
St. Albert, Alberta, Canada
Ph. (780) 459-2588
www.kaizensolutions.org
"To give life meaning, one must have a purpose larger than one's self."
Will Durant
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From: Management, Spirituality & Religion [mailto:
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Behalf Of Aryeh Lazar
Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2007 3:58 AM
To:
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Subject: Introduction and Measure of workplace spirituality
Hello to all members of the MSR.
My name is Aryeh Lazar and I am a combination Social and
Industrial/Organizational Psychologist. I am very interested in the
psychology of religion (including spirituality) and try to combine
organizational psychology with my interest in religion/spirituality.
My PhD dissertation dealt with the motivation for religious behavior and I
haev publishes a modest number of articles in the field of the psychology
of religion (religious motivation, religious experience, religious support).
After working in the field of selection with the military for 13 years, I
moved into academics a number of years ago and I am currently directing an
MA program in I/O psychology in the Ariel University Center of Samaria in
Israel.
I am interested in doing research deling with the worker-organization fit
in the field of spirituality.
I have a number of measures fo personal spirituality (e.g. the SOI) but
have not been able to find a measure of the sirituality of the workplace
itself.
I would be most grateful for sugestions (and if possible, e-copies of the
measure).
Best to all,
Aryeh Lazar