Spirituality within a Religious Workplace: Is It So Different?

Abstract

Viewing spirituality through the lens of a religious workplace, a Catholic School Board, this paper considers whether the manifestations of spirituality within the workplace are significantly different between a secular workplace and a religious workplace. Using a qualitative research approach which compared the two contexts, the author concluded that, at the surface, the differences were minimal. Specifically, there is remarkable similarity as one considers the various ideals of a spiritually infused workplace, such as vocation, ethics, interconnectedness, and being responsible to our local and global community. However, by going deeper, one realizes that the underlying motivations and values for creating, cultivating and sustaining a spiritually infused workplace within a religious workplace come from a specifically agreed upon set of religious values, which cannot be claimed for secular workplaces.

Keywords:

• Religious Workplace
• Spirituality