Workplace spirituality-An insight into employee perception on experiencing spiritual orientation at workplace

Workplace spirituality is gaining importance in the human resource management scenario as well as general and strategic management. The relevance of this topic is highlighted with the advent of eastern philosophical management orientation in most western companies. The extension of management principles and practice with eastern orientation has been in focus for effective built up of the future organizations. Defining workplace spirituality and the various components associated with it is a useful research area that could derive training platforms as well as Human resource management system human resource development platforms in organizations. To define workplace spirituality it is necessary to model the spirituality orientation of employees in typical organizations that may be influencing the definition in a larger extent. Spiritual orientation along with other identifiable variables directly or indirectly affecting it makes the definition more reliable and replicable. This study is aimed at understanding spiritual orientation from employee perspective. The study was conducted among middle level employees of Food processing organizations in Kerala.