The Relationship between Workplace Spirituality and Work Engagement with the Mediating Role of Organizational Loyalty (Case study: Elementary School Teachers of Khash City)

This study examined the relationship between workplace spirituality and work engagementwith the mediating role of organizational loyalty. The research design was a relational type of structural equation modeling. Statistical population was the elementary school teachers of Khash city that 153 teachers were studied by stratified random sampling method. To collect information, three questionnaires were used: Workplace Spirituality (Milliman et al., 2003), Work Engagement (Salanova & Schaufeli, 2004) and Organizational Loyalty (Mosadeghzadeh, 2012). For data analysis the structural equation modeling were used by SPSS and Lisrel software. Based on results the direct effect of workplace spirituality on work engagement, direct effect of workplace spirituality on organizational loyalty and direct effect of organizational loyalty on work engagement were significant (P<0/05). The indirect effect of workplace spirituality on work engagement was also significant with the mediator role of organizational loyalty (P<0/05).