Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities Vol. 5, No. 4, 2019, pp. 332-338 http://www.aiscience.org/journal/jssh ISSN: 2381-7763 (Print); ISSN: 2381-7771 (Online) * Corresponding author E-mail address: Measuring the Positive Effects of Religiosity and Spirituality on Employees’ Performance at the Workplace in Ghana Charles Aidoo Tawiah 1, * , Augustina Kyeraa 2 , Hans Kwaku Duah 1 1 Department of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Cape Coast, Berekum College of Education, Berekum, Ghana 2 Department of Administration, University of Cape Coast, Berekum College of Education, Berekum, Ghana Abstract Man’s attitude to work and response to others behaviour stem from the inner beliefs and level of spiritual growth. This research looked at the main positive effects of religiosity and spirituality on employees’ performance at the various workplaces. The research aimed at achieving the following objectives. Firstly, to examine the extent to which religiosity and spirituality affects employees’ performance at the workplace and to assess the practice of religiosity and spirituality at the workplaces. The practices of religiosity and spirituality were daily prayers, wearing of clothing, forming groupings and joining all staff to have service. The positive effects of religiosity and spirituality on employee performance include the fact that it breeds harmony at workplaces, workers are conscientious about their work, and workers respect each other. Mixed method was adopted in this research where both qualitative and quantitative data were collected concurrently. The questionnaire was used to gather data with the random sampling as the main technique. The findings revealed that there is a positive linear trend between performance and religiosity and spirituality. Also, employees who are religious and spiritual tend to work harder to increase productivity. Additionally, It was revealed that majority of the workers make good use of the organizations’ resources and further keep the excesses or the leftovers very well to enhance performance and profitability at workplace. Finally, the research revealed that religiosity and spirituality has helped to improve work ethics. It is recommended that The Human Resource Manager (HRM) must institute measures to regulate all religious and spiritual activities so that productivity at the workplace will be enhanced. Keywords Religiosity, Spirituality, Employees’ Performance Received: June 10, 2019 / Accepted: August 28, 2019 / Published online: September 6, 2019 @ 2019 The Authors. Published by American Institute of Science. This Open Access article is under the CC BY license. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 1. Introduction When we make the statement that the spiritual values starts or emanates from the originators or founders, it is supported that workplace spirituality originated in the United States as far back in the early 1920’s where a group of workers formed a movement at the grass root where members wanted to come to the workplace and practice their faith [15]. It must be noted that when organisations mergers and also when it is bought by another company, the morale of the employees tend to go down since their fate in the hands of the new employers are unknown [11]. As a result of this imbalance psychologically, workers then resort to spiritual exercises to find solace and to heal all their internal pains and agony they are experiencing from the deadly effects of company takeovers or sales and mergers. The 21 st century is full of organisational competitions as each tries to outdo the other. It would be necessary therefore to seek assistance from the