Organizational Spirituality: Refining Its Measurement and Exploring Associations with Individual Spirituality at Work...

Despite the burgeoning interest in workplace spirituality, there remains considerable room for improvement in its conceptualization and measurement. The purpose of this study was to provide a psychometrically sound and easily implementable measure of organizational spirituality. Additionally, the study aimed to differentiate organizational spirituality from individual spirituality at work by examining its unique contributions to job satisfaction. The study was conducted online with 884 employees in Poland (52.1% women). The Organizational Spiritual Values Scale (OSVS), the "spiritual connection at work" subscale from the Spirit at Work Scale, and a single-item measure of job satisfaction were used. Based on the confirmatory factor analysis, the unidimensional OSVS was shortened from 20 to 10 items to optimize its psychometric properties. The shortened instrument (OSVS-S) demonstrated scalar measurement invariance across gender, age, employees' religiosity levels, job positions, employment sectors, and organization sizes. Higher levels of organizational spirituality were noted among managers (versus nonmanagers), more religious (versus less religious) employees, and employees working in smaller (versus larger) organizations. Moreover, organizational spirituality predicted job satisfaction even after controlling for individual spirituality at work and sociodemographic variables. This study contributes to the literature by providing a robust measure of organizational spirituality and emphasizes  the need to incorporate workplace spirituality at various levels in future research.