Impact of spirituality and emotional intelligence on employee engagement

Abstract

Spirituality is a hot topic of research in recent times in management arena. Though the organizational researchers have intensely started exploring this area, yet very little discussion on how spiritual and religious issues might influence employee engagement. This research is an attempt to fulfil this need. Spirituality has been characterized as a characteristic of healthy people and more recently high performing employees in the organizations. However the comprehensive framework of Emotional Intelligence based components within the organizations provide employees the necessary skills to apply their personal spiritual experience into their work. It helps them to develop strong psychological bonding towards the organization which in turn provides positive results to both the employees and the organization. The present study explores and establishes a relationship between Spirituality, Emotional Intelligence and Employee Engagement.