Tenth International Conference on Religion & Spirituality in Society

Abstract

Global productivity growth is in decline and one of the significant factors is employee engagement. The state of the global workplace is that employee worldwide lacks the spirit of work to be engaged in their job. Thus, employee engagement is also in decline. This may imply that many employees are working dead so to speak and do not have the spirit to be engaged at work. Literature affirms that there is a positive significant relationship between spirituality at work and employee engagement. The link of spirituality in the workplace and employee engagement is a high agenda for many organizations across the globe. Many organizations are trying to unpack this link and try to measure how spiritual and engage their employees in their job and what to do about it towards productivity growth. This paper is exploratory and descriptive in nature. The study aims to understand and relate the concepts of spirituality, employee engagement, and productivity using works from literature and global indices. The paper concludes with a discussion of the implications of the possible significant relation of spirituality, employee engagement, and productivity.