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Workplace Spirituality and Creativity

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Abstract

Recent developments like globalization, women empowerment, workplace diversity, and workplace flexibility have helped to engender the conversations on the impact of workplace spirituality on organizational performance. This has increased the curiosity on the role of workplace spirituality to organizational output and performance. Despite the many benefits of workplace spirituality, organizations are face with the challenge of the need to develop a business model that will improve workers inner life and social responsibility without decimating on core goals like financial growth, profitability and organizational performance. This chapter examines the impact workplace spirituality has on employee creativity and how this fosters employee productivity and output. With very little literature connecting workplace spirituality to creativity, this study identifies certain workplace spirituality constructs like wholeness, inner life, freedom, actualization and intrinsic motivation. Using the Structural Equation Model of Partial Least Square, it employs the construct of intrinsic motivation to examine how it fosters creativity in a higher education organization. The result showed a positive influence with implications on practice, research and policy implementation.

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    Anthony A. Olalere

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    Gary Roberts

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    Joanna Crossman

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Survey Questions Used

Creativity

The following scale evaluates the degree of creativity that was generated by your HEHD innovation research. Please respond on a 7-point scale as indicated.

  • To what degree are the research questions in your research different from anything other researches in your field?

  • Some established journals tend only to accept articles whose methodology/premise is grounded in traditional practices (e.g., statistical analyses might be preferred over qualitative analyses). Rate the likelihood that the methodology or premise in the articles you produce would be published in such traditionalist journals.

  • To what degree is the methodology or premise for you published so different that journal editors might have difficulty finding reviewers to knowledgeably evaluate your study?

  • To what degree has the research you produce drawn attention from your peers or colleagues because of the uniqueness of the study?

  • Rate the degree to which your research is creative.

Intrinsic Motivation

Please indicate the degree to which you agree or disagree to each of the following.

  • Research gives me please because it broadens my knowledge about subjects that appeal to me.

  • I participate in collaborative research because I enjoyed the give-and-take of developing and studying ideas with other researchers.

  • I do research to improve my competence as an instructor.

  • I have high academic standards for myself.

  • I like the intellectual challenge of creating new ideas.

  • I have fun doing academic research with others.

Survey questions adopted from the survey for mediating effect of collectivist and entity contextual characteristics among faculty members in higher education (Olalere 2013).

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Olalere, A.A. (2018). Workplace Spirituality and Creativity. In: Dhiman, S., Roberts, G., Crossman, J. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Workplace Spirituality and Fulfillment. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61929-3_58-1

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