Workplace Spirituality and Toleration of Employee Expression – An Exploratory Study

Abstract

Workplace Spirituality has become a basic need for every organisations and especially Information Technology (IT) organisations. Workplace Spirituality is not viewed as organized practices but it is the recognition of that taking place in the community of the organisation. This study is an effort to understand the factors of workplace spirituality. It also finds out the organisations' toleration of employee expression and the relationship between workplace spirituality and toleration of employee expression. The study was carried out by selecting five IT organisations in Chennai city, India. Primary data was used for the study and it was collected with the help of a structured questionnaire. The responses were collected and analyses were done based on the objectives to be achieved. The study
revealed twelve factors of spirituality which was then grouped to three factors. It is also evident from the study that there is a positive significant relationship between workplace spirituality and toleration of employee expression.