Does Workplace Spirituality Foster Employee Ambidexterity? Evidence from IT Employees

Mohammad Nurul Alam, Juman Iqbal (), Hammad S. Alotaibi, Nhat Tan Nguyen, Norazuwa Mat and Ali Alsiehemy
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Mohammad Nurul Alam: Department of Management, Faculty of Business Administration, University of Tabuk, Tabuk 47512, Saudi Arabia
Juman Iqbal: Department of Management Studies, University of Kashmir, Srinagar 190006, India
Hammad S. Alotaibi: College of Taraba, Taif University, Taif 21944, Saudi Arabia
Nhat Tan Nguyen: Faculty of Business Administration, Ho Chi Minh City University of Foreign Languages—Information Technology, Ho Chi Minh 70000, Vietnam
Norazuwa Mat: Department of Marketing, College of Business, Umm AL Qura University, Makkah 21955, Saudi Arabia
Ali Alsiehemy: Marketing Department, University of Tabuk, Tabuk 47512, Saudi Arabia

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 14, 1-18

Abstract: Incorporating spirituality into the workplace positively affects employees’ physical, psychological, mental, and spiritual well-being, hence contributing to sustainability. With this background, the objective of this study is to broaden our understanding of workplace spirituality and its association with employee ambidexterity through the theoretical lens of social exchange theory. It also examines the underlying mediational mechanism of employee perception of managerial trustworthiness and the moderating role of psychological distance A total of 384 Information Technology (IT) professionals participated in the study. Data were analyzed using Smart-PLS. It was found that workplace spirituality has a positive association with employee ambidexterity. Further, employee perception of managerial trustworthiness partially mediated the relationship between workplace spirituality and employee ambidexterity. Surprisingly, psychological distance did not moderate the relationship between workplace spirituality and employee perception of managerial trustworthiness. However, psychological distance moderated the relationship between workplace spirituality and employee ambidexterity. This study is an attempt to broaden the frontiers of workplace spirituality research, and it provides critical insights into how workplace spirituality fosters employee ambidexterity via employee perception of managerial trustworthiness. The findings also contribute to the scant research on the moderating role of psychological distance. Although studies have emphasized the need to explore the positive consequences of workplace spirituality, scant attention has been paid to its association with employee ambidexterity. To the best of our knowledge, no prior examination has been done on such a model, making our study unique and novel.

Keywords: workplace spirituality; employee ambidexterity; managerial trustworthiness; psychological distance; IT employees; India (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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