Badrinaraya Pawar

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This paper outlines a proposed teaching delivery process in order to facilitate the transmission of research-based knowledge through organizational behavior (OB) teaching. It notes that there are difficulties in transmitting research-based knowledge in OB teaching, that research-based knowledge is not adequately getting transmitted through OB teach...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to carry out an empirical examination to assess the nature of effects an employee’s individual spirituality and organizational spirituality have on the employee’s experience of meaning in work and community at work facets of workplace spirituality. Design/methodology/approach This paper specifies and examines...

Purpose The existing literature suggests that employee well-being is an important concern for organizations. The purpose of this paper is to carry out an empirical examination to assess whether employee experience of workplace spirituality has positive relationships with multiple forms of employee well-being. Design/methodology/approach This pap...

The existing literature has noted that there is inadequate connection between research and teaching in management and in organizational behavior (OB). It has also noted that the reciprocal relationship between research and teaching in management has been inadequately studied. This paper addresses this research inadequacy. It briefly outlines that O...

The existing literature indicates that management research, of which organizational behavior (OB) is a part, has declined in usefulness and relevance for teaching. As a reflection of this, the research-teaching gap also has been noted in the literature. Possibly as a consequence of this, concerns have been expressed about inadequate transmission of...

This study notes three research requirements in workplace spirituality namely; need for conducting empirical studies, building on the existing research, and linking spirituality to organizational topics in general and leadership in particular. It also notes that the existing literature indicates a requirement for examining the spiritual sources of...

The present paper outlines a model that incorporates employee performance and employee well-being as outcomes. In the performance outcome category, the model includes three forms of employee performance—task performance, contextual performance or organizational citizenship behavior, and negative behavior. In the well-being outcome category, it cove...

This chapter provides an overview of workplace spirituality and outlines the likely relationship between workplace spirituality and employee well-being. It briefly describes workplace spirituality and indicates how it can help address some of the ethical dilemmas involving employee-organization relationships. This chapter outlines specific employee...

This article specifies a comprehensive model for workplace spirituality facilitation that integrates various views from the existing research on workplace spirituality facilitation. It outlines the significance of workplace spirituality topic and highlights its relevance to the area of ethics. It then briefly outlines the various directions the exi...

Purpose – This paper aims to examine the direct effects of three workplace spirituality aspects – meaning in work, community at work, and positive organizational purpose – and individual spirituality on three work attitudes – job satisfaction, job involvement, and organizational commitment. It also seeks to examine the interactive effects of these...

This paper addresses researchers’ call for integrating workplace spirituality with organizational literature. This paper points out that self-interest transcendence is a common aspect in the workplace spirituality concept that emerged in the last decade and also in four OB concepts – transformational leadership, organizational citizenship behavior,...

Purpose – This paper seeks to outline and compare two approaches to workplace spirituality facilitation and to derive conclusions and suggest implications for research and practice. Design/methodology/approach – The article uses two real-life descriptions from the existing literature to outline two approaches to workplace spirituality facilitation....

Transformational leadership is one of the most recent conceptualizations of leadership concepts. It has been specified as an important mechanism of introducing organizational change. Transformational leadership has received substantial research attention over the last two decades. As a result, transformational leadership research has created consid...

In the existing transformational leadership research, little attention has been paid to contextual influences on transformational leadership. To more fully understand transformational leadership as an organizational process, researchers must study it in relation to a contextual framework. We discuss how four contextual factors affect organizational...

Divergent approaches to the conceptualization and empirical investigation of OCB have emerged. To reconcile these differences, we propose extending existing OCB taxonomy to reflect three finer level OCB concepts. We distinguish the domains associated with these OCB concepts and highlight their role as nuclei for three middle range OCB theories.