Psychology Research and Behavior Management (Jan 2022)
Towards Examining the Link Between Workplace Spirituality and Workforce Agility: Exploring Higher Educational Institutions
Abstract
Imran Saeed,1 Jawad Khan,2 Muhammad Zada,3 Rezwan Ullah,4 Alejandro Vega-Muñoz,5 Nicolás Contreras-Barraza6 1IBMS, The University of Agriculture Peshawar, Peshawar, Pakistan; 2Department of Business Administration, Iqra National University, Peshawar, Pakistan; 3Business School Henan University, Kaifeng, Henan, 475000, People’s Republic of China; 4Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, People’s Republic of China; 5Public Policy Observatory, Universidad Autónoma de Chile, Santiago, 7500912, Chile; 6Facultad de Economía y Negocios, Universidad Andres Bello, Viña del Mar, 2531015, ChileCorrespondence: Muhammad ZadaBusiness School Henan University, Kaifeng, Henan, 475000, People’s Republic of ChinaTel +8618595590712Email [email protected]: Spiritual inherited employees quickly shift to new changes that occur very quickly in our daily lives in different ways. We are inspired by the dynamic changes in our daily lives due to the Covid 19 situation, an urgent need to specify the shift from the traditional approach to the agile approach during a pandemic. This study aimed to figure out the effect of workplace spirituality on workforce agility; further, this study underpinning spillover theory to examine the role of job involvement as a mediator.Methods: This study investigates a sample of 236 teaching and administrative staff working in public sector institutes located in Peshawar, Pakistan. For data analysis, we used SPSS v. 25, and for model fitness, we used AMOS version 22. Furthermore, we used Process Hayes (Model 4) to test the theoretical model and research hypothesis for mediation.Results: This unique study offers a paradigm in which spirituality in the workplace substantially influences the agility of teaching and administrative professionals by positively mediating the effects of job involvement.Discussion: An in-depth examination of the literature showed that no prior research had studied the connection between WPS, job involvement, and workforce agility. Furthermore, there is very little research regarding WPS and its connection with other components in the Covid 19 scenario. The current study was a modest attempt to address this gap in the literature. This research has succeeded in making substantial additions to management literature.Keywords: workplace spirituality, workforce agility, job involvement, workforce performance, spillover theory
