Workplace Spirituality: A Catalyst for Job Satisfaction? Exploring Cultural and Gender Contingencies
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WPS, OC, Gender, SPSS, PakistanAbstract
Work-Place spirituality is on the fast track and those days are gone when scholars face problem in defining the same. Spirituality has deep relation with personality and all the linked abstracts with personality are in lab with workplace spirituality at current time. This study is one of the case of that chain where spirituality is observed with job satisfaction, organizational culture and role of gender. The method for gathering the data was stratified random sampling. 457 replies were obtained from 500 teaching faculty members at several universities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, who were given an approved questionnaire. AMOS and SPSS Package-21 have been used to find analytical results. The tool's validity and dependability were guaranteed. Values for the model fit index were confirmed. The study has shown and analyzed the model's path coefficient with and without moderating and interaction factors. It was discovered that Work-place Spirituality has encouraging behavior for job satisfaction of the employee and organizational culture further enhance the behavior while gender is unaware about the behavior of WPS. The study's role in literature and industry has been defined. At the completion of this inquiry, there are limitations and recommendations based on the findings.
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