Defining spirit at work: finding common ground

By Val Kinjerski, Berna J. Skrypnek. 2004

439 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Demography, Health, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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In Demography

1. L. Fry
2. David Geigle
3. Naval Garg
4. Margaret J Benefiel
5. Pawinee Petchsawang
6. Dennis Duchon
7. G. McLean
8. A. Saks

In Health

1. L. Fry
2. David Geigle
3. Naval Garg
4. Margaret J Benefiel
5. Pawinee Petchsawang
6. G. McLean
7. Dennis Duchon
8. A. Saks

In Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

1. Naval Garg
2. Pawinee Petchsawang
3. Margaret J Benefiel
4. David Geigle
5. G. McLean
6. L. Fry
7. Dennis Duchon
8. Won‐Moo Hur

Citations in the corpus

• Workplace spirituality, mindfulness meditation, and work engagement (2017, background): “For the first camp, workplace spirituality is described as the individual’s experience of energy, joy, and awareness of alignment between one’s values and one’s meaningful work, a sense of connection to others, something larger than self, and transcendence (Kinjerski and Skrypnek 2004).”
• Workplace spirituality and employee engagement (2011, background): “Based on a study in which 14 individuals were interviewed about their spiritual experiences at work, Kinjerski and Skrypnek (2004) describe the experience of workplace spirituality in a manner that sounds very much like engagement: When spirit at work is present, the experience was described as…”
• Measuring workplace spirituality in an Asian context (2009, result): “Milliman, Czaplewski and Ferguson ( 2003 ), however, proposed that the third element of spirituality in the workplace was an alignment with organizational values, not an inner life, and their notion of alignment is similar to that of Kinjerski and Skrypnek ( 2004 ).”
• Creating organizational conditions that foster employee spirit at work (2006, neutral): “The emergence of individual-centered spirit at work as separate from organizational-centered spirit at work (Kinjerski and Skrypnek, 2004; Krishnakumar and Neck, 2002) has promoted research focusing on the individual.”
• From empty speech to full speech? Reconceptualizing spirituality in organizations based on a psychoanalytically-grounded understanding of the self (2005, background): “In a recent study in which respondents were interviewed about various aspects of spirituality at work (Kinjierski & Skrypnek, 2004), a respondent named Rose gave the following answer in describing her spirituality as the experience of purpose beyond the self: ‘recognition of each employee and his…”
• Spiritual Climate of Business Organizations and Its Impact on Customers’ Experience (2009, background): “Luthans and Church (2002) defines POB as "the study and application of positively oriented human resource strengths and psychology capacities that can be measured, developed and effectively managed for performance improvement in today's workplace.”
• Does employees’ spirituality enhance job performance? The mediating roles of intrinsic motivation and job crafting (2020, background): “With the growing interest in spirituality at work in recent years, spirituality research has examined the effects of spirituality on many individual and organizational outcomes (Duchon and Plowman 2005; Kinjerski and Skrypnek 2004; Mitroff and Denton 1999).”
• Workplace spirituality, meditation, and work performance (2012, methodology): “Items for the questionnaire were adapted from previously published measures (cf. Ashmos and Duchon 2000, Brown and Ryan 2003, Kinjerski and Skrypnek 2004, Delaney 2005, Delgado 2005) and address the four factors noted in the definition above: compassion (e.g.”
• Workplace Spirituality and Organizational Performance in Indian Context: Mediating Effect of Organizational Commitment, Work Motivation and Employee Engagement (2017, background): “…workplace integration and connectedness (Ingersoll, 2003), respect, humility and courage (Heaton, Schmidt-Wilk, & Travis, 2004), common purpose (Kinjerski & Skrypnek, 2004), inclusiveness and interconnectedness (Marques, Dhiman, & King, 2007), inner consciousness (Guillory, 2000), feelings…”
• Spirituality and Religion in the Workplace: History, Theory, and Research (2013, background): “Some have argued that these changes, which have resulted in the demoralization and the spiritual disorientation of the employees (Kinjerski & Skrypnek, 2004; Leigh, 1997), can be counterbalanced by the positive impact of SRW (Driver, 2005; Kinjerski & Skrypnek, 2004; Petchsawang & Duchon, 2012).”