Mitigation of Occupational Stress through Spirituality: A Review Based on Case Study

Occupational stress is a result of high intensity threat or challenge caused by any stressor including poor communication between employee and management, continuous and sudden change, unsympathetic organizational culture, bullying and harassment, biased promotions, no job security, family-work conflict, relentless demands and toxic work environment. Several researches concluded that workplace spirituality has a significant impact on work attitudes like organizational performance, job involvement, job commitment, and job satisfaction as a whole. The main objective of the current study is to understand the concept of spiritual intelligence, identify the need of Spirituality in workplace and examine the impact of spiritual intelligence on occupational stress based on a case study. The results of the case study support the proposed hypothesis that workplace spirituality buffers or moderates the effect of stress on health. The findings of the case study indicate that stress has a negative relationship with health. When employees have a high level of stress, they exhibit more symptoms of poor health, and vice versa. Workplace spirituality does help to decrease the perception of workplace stressors, and thus contributes to a sense of well-being.