Intellectual Impact of Spiritual Wellbeing, Self-Determination, and Employee Outlook on Industry 5.0

Introduction

Industry 5.0 has been widely discussed due to arise of concerning factors in Industry 4.0 where the technological innovations are at the core of development. The focus of Industry 5.0 is collaborative interaction between human and machines/robots for sustainable development of industries, societies and people (Kadir and Halil, 2019). The focus of I5.0 is to develop human-centric approach, with resilience and sustainability at its core (European Commission, 2021). I5.0 tranquil approach to harness Big Data and tremendous automation for sustainable innovative ecosystem with responsible science, innovation and human friendly policies can bring a meaningful change in the human and industrial revolution sustenance (Vural & Nezih, 2018). The preconditions of successful I5.0 transition are skilled, healthy and enthusiastic workers (European Commission, 2021). However, the big question is ‘How to valorise human capital’. The onset of I4.0 led to a change in work pattern throughout the world. The industrial revolution 4.0 has created much insecurity among the employees. People have started taking work-overload and spend more time on working continuously proving themselves to safeguard their jobs. Due to overload and work pressure, they started ignoring their health and happiness and stress, anxiety, fatigues, hypertension, sleep disorder, lack of contentment etc. have become an integral part of their routine lives (Sauter et.al, Article). The consequences of these factors may affect the employee’s wellbeing and escalation of the insecurity at workplace (Ming to et.al (2020).

For successful transition, industries need to focus on many attitude gaps and adapted trainings such as spirituality. The influence of automation and digitalization on employee physical and mental well-being must be considered in new initiatives (European Commission, 2021). Spirituality at the workplace is mainly an individual activity that seeks a feeling of purpose at work. It originates from a person’s self -determination. Workers should be aware about the core resolution of their own lives which empowers them to improve their productivity at work place (Karakas, 2010). Spirituality in the workroom produces a healthy work environment where all employees work together in a creative and positive way and this collaboration helps them to achieve better results. Spirituality also aids firms in adopting technology improvements with greater employee enthusiasm and participation (Sadhana Singh, 2019).Employees with high spirit feel more motivated, meaningful and satisfied with their jobs, which eventually make them compassionate about their organization. This compassion helps in promoting organizations, their commitments and vision (Michael Crawley, 2014). High spirituality leads an employee to achieve higher abilities and capabilities. With adequate organizational support such as spirituality training at workplace, employee is able to develop a positive perspective, better able to manage the job, workload, control over job, relationships at workplace.