Spiritual leadership and work engagement: a mediating role of spiritual well-being
Spiritual leadership and work engagement: a mediating role of spiritual well-being

Summary/Abstract: Purpose– Recently, both researchers and practitioners have been very interested in the impact of leadershipon employee engagement. Thus, I aimed to examine the relationship between spiritual leadership and workengagement through the mediating role of spiritual well-being at work.Design/methodology/approach– I assessed spiritual leadership, engagement, and well-being in anempirical study based on a sample of 223 employees. I collected data through a survey-based method andanalyzed them using structural equation modeling (SEM).Findings– The present study contributes to the existing knowledge in the leadership field, especially spiritualleadership. The results revealed that spiritual leadership impacts employees’ work engagement by indirectlyinfluencing employees’ spiritual well-being.Research limitations/implications– Theoretically, the findings imply that spiritual well-being can be oneof the factors considered in enhancing work engagement through spiritual leadership.Practical implications– Finding evidence that spiritual leadership, like other leadership styles, can fosteremployee engagement. Therefore, leaders should take care of employees’ spiritual needs.Originality/value– Many researchers have indicated that well-being is associated with employeeengagement. However, they overlooked employees’ spiritual well-being in the research. The studyconfirmed the unexplored mediating role of spiritual well-being between spiritual leadership and employeeengagement.

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