A Survey on the Relationship between Personal and Organizational Spirituality with Job Engagement: Meaning of Work Mediating Role

Humans can find personal significance through work, and so work can be considered as the foundation and center of human life. Therefore, the purpose of the present study is to investigate how the personal and organizational spirituality of nurses can improve the perception of meaningful work and job engagement. The statistical population of the study consisted of all nurses working in Rafsanjan University of Medical Sciences in 2019, which 270 of them were selected applying cluster random sampling. The research instruments included individual spirituality questionnaire, organizational spirituality questionnaire, utrecht work engagement questionnaire and meaning of work questionnaire. Data was analyzed using Lisrel 8.8 software and by structural equation modeling approach.Findings indicate that although individual spirituality does not enhance nurses' experiences of meaningful work, this construct (Z=.29, T= 4.05), together with organizational spirituality (Z=.31, T= 4.27), can be considered as antecedents of job engagement. Finally, the evidence confirms the relative mediating role of meaning of work in the relationship between organizational spirituality with job engagement in the study population (= 5.09, T 1.96). According to the findings of this study, if managers of health centers seek to enhance the meaning of work experience and job engagement as a result of it in their nursing staff, they should first focus on spiritual orientation in organizational culture and then on improving the spiritual health of their staff.