SPIRITUAL LEADERSHIP AND ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH QUALITY OF WORK LIFE AND ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE – AN EXPLORATORY STUDY
KEYWORDS
Spiritual Leadership (SL), Quality of work-life (QWL), & Organizational Performance (OP)
The purpose of this paper is to review the concept of spiritual leadership and its relationship with Quality of work life of the employees and Organizational performance. Spiritual leadership consists of components such as vision, altruistic love, hope/faith, meaning/calling and membership & Organizational Commitment. Organizational performance has components such as new business, repeat business, return on investment, profit after tax, customer satisfaction and employee turnover. The framework suggests that each one of the Spiritual leadership and Quality of work life and organizational performance components positively affect each other significantly. Recommendations for further study are also outlined.
Usha Devi. N
The author is a Professor in Dept. of commerce, MLA First Grad college for women, Bangalore, India. She may be reached at usha09_n@rediffmail.com