Georgewill, T.
Department of Management, Faculty of Management Sciences, Rivers State University,
Port Harcourt, Nigeria
and
Zeb-Obipi, I.
Department of Management, Faculty of Management Sciences, Rivers State University,
Port Harcourt, Nigeria
ABSTRACT
The study examined employee’s inner life and organizational outcomes in higher educational institutions in Rivers state, Nigeria, with productivity and innovation of academic staff as proxies of organizational outcomes in tertiary institutions. The structured questionnaire instrument was used to collect primary data for this study, and a cross-sectional design was chosen as the preferred method of investigation. The Cronbach alpha coefficient was used to examine the instruments’ reliability, and the results showed high coefficient values for all associated instruments; also, principal component analysis were conducted to identify the items that make up each component and how strongly they relate to each component, in terms of content validity and factorial validity. The results of the analysis conducted revealed that inner life has a weak positive and significant relationship with research productivity of staffs in tertiary institutions in Rivers state. Also, a weak negative but significant relationship between inner life and innovation was revealed from the test of the analysis. Thus, the study deduced that as higher educational institutions in Rivers state give lecturers opportunity to express their inner, epitomized through respects for the spirituality and spiritual values of staff, productivity of lecturers is significantly increased. From the finding, the study recommends that Higher educational institutions in Rivers state should respect staffs’ spiritual values at the workplace in order to motivate them to exert higher efforts towards research productivity for social and economic benefits; higher educational institutions should recognize that employees have inner life related to the soul, thus, should be conscientized and encouraged to continually participate in practices such as meditation, yoga, prayer and nature walk in order to tap into their inner powers for creativity and innovativeness.
Keywords: Spirituality, inner life, workplace spirituality, organizational outcomes, productivity, innovation.
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