Department/School
Catholic Studies
Date of this version
2010
Document Type
Article
Keywords
denominational strictness, organizational behavior, religiosity, work-faith integration, workplace faith, workplace spirituality
Abstract
Religiosity can significantly impact human behavior yet little is known about how religious belief and practice integrate with work. Using the Faith at Work Scale, we surveyed Christian workers in the United States (n = 374) and found that work-faith integration was positively associated with faith maturity, church attendance, age and denominational strictness, and negatively associated with organizational size. Denominational groups varied in their degree of integration but displayed similar patterns across dimensions of integration. Work-faith integration was manifest most strongly in integration related to the self, and somewhat less so in areas related to others and in transcendent aspects of work. Respondents attributed spiritual disciplines and workplace mentors as salient influences of work-faith integration. Implications for workplace spirituality scholarship and management are explored.
Published in
Human Relations
Citation/Other Information
HUMAN RELATIONS, ISSN 0018-7267, 05/2011, Volume 64, Issue 5, pp. 675 - 701
The online version of this article can be found at: http://hum.sagepub.com/content/early/2010/12/16/0018726710386396