Importance of spirituality on employee satisfaction

Many people understand spirituality as an alleged immaterial reality however many understand this as a process of reformation. This helps to recover original shape of man with positive values and qualities. Moral, ethical, economic and behavioural changes are nourished by spiritual practices. Meditation and prayers give deep impact on human values and awaken the inner qualities. Human wishes, expectations and needs bring pleasure on fulfillment. This is called satisfaction. Employee's satisfaction plays a major role in today's world business. The development of a company or downfall depends on its satisfied or dissatisfied employees respectively. Productivity of a company directly depends on work effectiveness and attitudes of its employees. So employer and company give their special attention on satisfying them. To fulfill their physical, emotional and psychological needs they take some special steps. Thus the ability of a company to fulfill the above needs of its employees is called employee satisfaction. Spirituality pours a deep impact on bringing social, cultural and behavioural changes. A spiritually awakened person always provides selfless service and has the essence of long term satisfaction. Spirituality is only the way of discipline. The great heritage of this country has always given importance to conceptualize business on the way of spirituality. Perhaps due to this reason Indian business has taught the world about satisfaction. In North and East India and Nepal, people worship Goddess Santoshi Maa, the mother of Satisfaction. The spiritual origin of employee and customer satisfaction is very old in this country. Worship of Goddess Santoshi has not only modified the social and economic life of Indians but also has shaped the Indian business with satisfaction.

Our paper highlights the spiritual acceptance in workplace. This contains Introduction, literature review, importance of the study, discussion about impact of spirituality on employee satisfaction and conclusion. There are 108 names of Goddess Santoshi teaching 108 different management qualities. All names are important as they are the key to success and satisfaction. If a person acquires a bunch of essence of her name gets satisfied. These will be beneficial for adopting moral and ethical values for both employer and employee. So it will lead to achieve corporate excellence. Finally the references are included as end notes.