Integrating Spirituality at the Workplace for Well-Being: A Study on Academia in Higher Education

Introduction

The growing interest of people in the journey of life and death is an important catalyst in promoting the research in area of life meaning, understanding oneself and leading a calm clear and joyful life. The concept of spirituality has been a controversial topic, moving around the themes of religion or self-understanding. A lot of studies in this domain have demonstrated the glancing effect of this concept which has proved to be vital for individual development. The paths and definitions may be contradictory, but the results have been productive. The studies have shown a strong inclination towards spirituality during the uncertain times. The knocking of Covid across nations was alarming . It instigated a lot of people and organization to take step towards finding and implanting spiritual practices. The spiritual loss leads to insecurity amongst people (Obregon et al 2021). The question today is not to do with defining or supporting spirituality in form of religion rather it is to imbibe spiritual practices. There are varied professions and organizations taking small steps towards building spiritual and sustainable organizations (Shamsevi et al., 2021). Academics is one such field where spirituality flows from institution to teachers and further to the coming generations. Most of the researchers adjusted spirituality to reason for individual life which gives meaning, inward mindfulness, and information with feeling of presence. Uttami, et al, 2021 depicted otherworldliness like “attempting to grasp water”, a few researchers like Claxton (2002) have strikingly recorded profound characteristics that can be educated to understudies, including aliveness, having a place, a proclivity with the obscure, and true serenity. Fenwick and Lange (1998) investigated how otherworldliness might be cognizant with learning and work through substitute methodologies that are more comprehensive, environmental, ecumenical, and moral. The studies highlight the relevance of spirituality in academics and routine of teacher. The success of an efficient teacher lies in the effectiveness of teaching with the amount of impression that teacher holds in life of students. This could only be achieved with talent accompanied by spiritual phenomena in a true academician role.

The progression in business education had been overwhelming in past twenty years but the last few years have witnessed the dropping of trends. The output generated through talent production has seen a fall (Chapman et al., 2021) which has been added after Covid scenario. Illes and Zsolnai (2017) contended that there is a solid lopsidedness in business schooling between giving freedoms and dynamic, objective ideas for self-awareness. To get ready understudies for the intricacies and difficulties of the working environment, it appears to be attractive for guides to send advantages of otherworldliness. Self-disclosure and investing energy getting to know their “actual self” are a pivotal piece of the improvement of future business experts. Rahman et al. (2015) led a review on Malaysian higher learning foundation, wherein they intended to increase the value of the momentum research on information sharing, examined the precursors of information sharing conduct by inserting work environment otherworldliness and trust variable. The otherworldliness of individuals and instructors creates after some time and is impacted by critical associations with others through lived encounters (Ambrose, 2005). Studies have substantiated that spirituality in academics tend to shape effective learning environment and enhancing teaching skills. World class universities are practicing training for building spiritual organizations. Few of them have even started with spirituality courses. The shift towards spirituality is phenomenal and has glaring results, academics promising the same through the country builders, the teachers.