Impact Of Workplace Spirituality And Emotional Intelligence Of Women Academicians Of Higher Education Institutions On Their Performance

Abstract

The high-pace upsurging global competitiveness has forced organizations inculcating newlinediverse practices to achieve competitive growth including resource specific intrinsic newlinegrowth and overall performance. Human resource being centre to the organizations newlineneeds optimally inclusive culture and environment that could improve their intrinsic newline(cognitive) capabilities like meaningful work yields, healthy inner-life, sense of newlinecommunity, constructive work attitude, alignment with the organizational values, jobsatisfaction and commitment. It can improve overall productivities of individual as newlinewell as organizations. To achieve it, workplace spirituality has been identified newlinedecisive in numerous literatures; yet, its generalizability across industries has newlineremained debatable. With this motive, in this study the key emphasis was made on newlineassessing the impact of workplace spirituality on higher-education institution s newlineperformance. Specifically, this study quantifies the female academician s perception newlinetowards the impact of workplace spirituality on institutional performance. This study newlinemakes use of the mixed research paradigm including qualitative and quantitative newlinemethods, where both primary as well as secondary data were applied to understand newlinethe impact of workplace spirituality on higher-education institutional performance. newlineThe semi-structured interviews conducted over 450 female academicians working in newlinehigher-education institutions of Bengaluru, and allied statistical quantification newlinerevealed that workplace spirituality can improve teacher s intrinsic and cognitive newlinecapabilities as well as emotional intelligence that improves teacher s efficiency as newlinewell as institutional productivity. The study revealed that the workplace spirituality at newlinethe higher education institutions inculcates holistic teaching practices, newlineaccommodating, harmonious, revitalizing and innovative teaching environment that newlineeventually improves student s performance and overall growth. The research newlineoutcomes can be of paramount significance for educational institution