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The Interaction of Spiritual Leadership and Individual
Spirituality impacting Spirit at Work toward Enhancing
Organizational Commitment and Job Satisfaction:
A Conceptual Proposition
Amelia Naim Indrajaya1, Wiwiek Mardiyah Daryanto2, Rifa Zahirsjah3
123 Sekolah Tinggi Manajemen Ipmi, Jl. Rawajati Timur I/1, Kalibata, Jakarta Selatan, Indonesia
Yeung, Shirley
Gratia Christian College, Hong Kong, 5 Wai Chi St, Shek Kip Mei, Hong Kong
amelia.naim@ip mi.ac.id (correspondence author)
Abstract
There is an increasing interest in the research of workplace spirituality, seen through the increasing number of
research in this area. However, there is still a gap on the analysis of spirit at work from a resource based view
(RBV) framework. This research is on The Impact of Spirit at Work toward Enhancing Organizational
Commitment and Job Satisfaction: A Conceptual Proposition. Through the literature review analysis, it is
shown that organizational intangible resources (in the form of integrated spiritual leadership (SL) variables:
Vision, hope/faith, meaning/calling and membership) interacting with Individual Spirituality are influencing
SW as a capability. It is proposed that SL is interacting with Individual Spirituality and organized into
employees experiencing SW. Further, literature review supports that SW influences JS and OC as competitive
advantages. Both JS and OC are valuable and become the proxy for organizational performance. SL and SW
potentially conform to valuable, rare, inimitable resource/capabilities of VRIO framework which leads to
competitive advantages.
Keywords: Resource Based View, Spirit at Work, Individual Spirituality, Spiritual Leadership, Workplace
Spirituality, Competitive Advantage, Service Industry, Job Satisfaction, Organizational Commitment.
1. Introduction
The Resource Based View (RBV) has opened up new perspectives of bundling tangible and intangible
individual and organizational capabilities as unique resources. RBV approach assumes that each
organization is a collection of unique resources and capabilities that provides the basis for its strategy and
the terms resources and capabilities are used interchangeably and refer to the tangible and intangible
assets firms use to develop and implement their strategies (Barney & Wright, 1998). Value and rareness
of resources and capabilities in the RBV framework contributes to a firm’s competitive advantage, which
contributes to its performance (Newbert, 2008).
Research has shown that the emphasis toward value, meaning and spirit at work increased organizational
performance (Garcia-Zamor, 2003). Vanderbilt University Business School study conducted a research on
the Fortune listing of The 100 Best companies to work for, and found a similar findings (Neal, 2013). Other
research has also supported that more spiritual companies are doing better than their counterparts with
lower spirituality (Fry et al., 2011). Unfortunately these research in the workplace spirituality area are
mostly still on the theoretical propositions and practical businesses research format.
Journal of Law and Society Management 6 (1)
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