Workplace spirituality, mindfulness meditation, and work engagement
Workplace spirituality has received increasing attention during the past few decades, especially their effect on work outcome. The purposes of the research were to: (1) extend the findings of Petchsawang and Duchon (2012) in examining the relationships among mindfulness meditation,
workplace spirituality, and work engagement in an eastern – specifically Thai – context; and (2) compare workplace spirituality and work engagement in organizations that provide mindfulness meditation courses to employees and those that do not. The sample came from four organizations
that offered meditation courses (248 from 300) and four organizations that did not (315 from 400) in Thailand. The level of workplace spirituality and work engagement were found to be higher in organizations that offer meditation courses than in those that do not. Additionally, mindfulness
meditation has a statistically significant relationship with workplace spirituality and work engagement, and workplace spirituality fully meditates the relationship between meditation and work engagement.
Keywords: Workplace spirituality; human resource development; human resource management; mindfulness; work engagement
Document Type: Research Article
Affiliations: 1: School of Business, University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce, Bangkok, Thailand 2: McLean Global Consulting, Inc., St. Paul, MN, USA
Publication date: 03 July 2017
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