Impact of Workplace Spirituality on Higher Education Institution’s Performance: A Perceptual Analysis of Women Academicians of Bangalore

Abstract

The high-pace upsurging global competitiveness has forced organizations inculcating diverse practices to achieve competitive growth including resource specific intrinsic growth and overall performance. Human resource being center to the organizations needs optimally inclusive culture and environment that could improve their intrinsic (cognitive) capabilities like meaningful work yields, healthy inner-life, sense of community, constructive work attitude, alignment with the organizational values, job-satisfaction and commitment. It can improve overall productivities of individual as well as organizations. To achieve it, workplace spirituality has been identified decisive in numerous literatures; yet, its generalizability across industries has remained debatable. With this motive, in this study the key emphasis was made on assessing the impact of workplace spirituality on higher-education institution’s performance. Specifically, this study quantifies the female academician’s perception towards the impact of workplace spirituality on institutional performance. This study makes use of the mixed research paradigm including qualitative and quantitative methods, where both primary as well as secondary data were applied to understand the impact of workplace spirituality on higher-education institutional performance. The semi-structured interviews conducted over 450 female academicians working in higher-education institutions of Bangalore, and allied statistical quantification revealed that workplace spirituality can improve teacher’s intrinsic and cognitive capabilities as well as emotional intelligence that improves teacher’s efficiency as well as institutional productivity. The study revealed that the workplace spirituality at the higher education institutions inculcates holistic teaching practices, accommodating, harmonious, revitalizing and innovative teaching environment that eventually improves student’s performance and overall growth. The research outcomes can be of paramount significance for educational institutions as well as academicians to inculcate workplace-spirituality to improve corresponding yields and well-being..