Links Between Workplace Spirituality, Job-Related Attitudes, and Value Fit in a Non-Profit Agency

Abstract

We examined perceptions of spirituality and meaning among 192 employees (77% female) from a non-profit organization in a mid-sized Midwestern city in the United States. We hypothesized that employees’ values related to workplace spirituality would be positively related to various measures of job satisfaction and general meaning in life. We also examined employees’ perceptions of the fit of their co-workers’ values with the agency mission and predicted that these perceptions would act as a moderator of the relationship between employees’ workplace spirituality and job satisfaction. Our hypotheses were generally supported. Spirituality predicted work contributing to the meaning of life and various facets of job satisfaction. Implications of the importance of employees’ perceptions of organizational fit related to spirituality and the perceived fit of co-workers’ values with the organizational mission are discussed.

KEYWORDS:

• co-workers’ values
• job satisfaction
• person–organization fit
• workplace spirituality