Workplace Spirituality and Occupation: A Study of Employees in Higher Education Institutions

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10.2991/hss-26.2016.27How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Workplace spirituality, Occupation, Higher education institution.

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to examine workplace spirituality in terms of its dimensions, namely meaningful work, sense of community and allignment of values, among employees in private higher education institutions in Greater Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The differences among the spirituality dimensions according to occupation were explored. Data were collected from a sample of 102 employees using self-administered questionnaires. There were no significant mean differences in overall workplace spirituality scores for occupation. Of the three dimensions, meaningful work significantly differed by occupation. Academics reported significantly higher levels of meaningful work than did administrators. Post-hoc analysis of comparison between means for academic and administrator groups indicated a significant difference.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Aminah Ahmad
AU  - Zoharah Omar
PY  - 2016/01
DA  - 2016/01
TI  - Workplace Spirituality and Occupation: A Study of Employees in Higher Education Institutions
BT  - Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Humanities and Social Science
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 174
EP  - 178
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/hss-26.2016.27
DO  - 10.2991/hss-26.2016.27
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