Working in multicultural environments: a conceptual analysis of the effects of spirituality, religiosity, and personal values on employee performance

With growing globalization of business operations, along with the movements of goods and services across nations, increasing trends of movements of people from various national, cultural and religious backgrounds are being observed to organizations in almost all business sectors. This trend of the m...

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Main Author: Hashim, Junaidah
Format: Proceeding Paper
Language:English
Published: 2011
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Online Access:http://irep.iium.edu.my/2773/1/AIB2011-Spirituality%26Religiosity.pdf
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description With growing globalization of business operations, along with the movements of goods and services across nations, increasing trends of movements of people from various national, cultural and religious backgrounds are being observed to organizations in almost all business sectors. This trend of the movements is changing the demographic compositions of workforce making the organizations more multicultural, multi-religious and diverse in nature. This paper presents a conceptual analysis of the effects of religiosity, spirituality, individual values on employee performance in multicultural organizations. The paper also highlights the moderating and mediating effects of individual values and organizational commitments. Based on exhaustive literature reviews, the paper developed some propositions that could be tested through empirical research in future. A conceptual framework is presented to guide future research, and implications for professional practice have been discussed at the end.
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spelling oai:generic.eprints.org:27732011-11-22T03:41:44Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/2773/ Working in multicultural environments: a conceptual analysis of the effects of spirituality, religiosity, and personal values on employee performance Hashim, Junaidah BP173.77 Islam and work With growing globalization of business operations, along with the movements of goods and services across nations, increasing trends of movements of people from various national, cultural and religious backgrounds are being observed to organizations in almost all business sectors. This trend of the movements is changing the demographic compositions of workforce making the organizations more multicultural, multi-religious and diverse in nature. This paper presents a conceptual analysis of the effects of religiosity, spirituality, individual values on employee performance in multicultural organizations. The paper also highlights the moderating and mediating effects of individual values and organizational commitments. Based on exhaustive literature reviews, the paper developed some propositions that could be tested through empirical research in future. A conceptual framework is presented to guide future research, and implications for professional practice have been discussed at the end. 2011-06-24 Proceeding Paper NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/2773/1/AIB2011-Spirituality%26Religiosity.pdf Hashim, Junaidah (2011) Working in multicultural environments: a conceptual analysis of the effects of spirituality, religiosity, and personal values on employee performance. In: AIB 2011 Annual Meeting Nagoya, Japan June 24-28, 2011, 24-28 June 2011, Nagoya, Japan. (Unpublished) http://aib.msu.edu/events/2011/
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title Working in multicultural environments: a conceptual analysis of the effects of spirituality, religiosity, and personal values on employee performance
title_full Working in multicultural environments: a conceptual analysis of the effects of spirituality, religiosity, and personal values on employee performance
title_fullStr Working in multicultural environments: a conceptual analysis of the effects of spirituality, religiosity, and personal values on employee performance
title_full_unstemmed Working in multicultural environments: a conceptual analysis of the effects of spirituality, religiosity, and personal values on employee performance
title_short Working in multicultural environments: a conceptual analysis of the effects of spirituality, religiosity, and personal values on employee performance
title_sort working in multicultural environments a conceptual analysis of the effects of spirituality religiosity and personal values on employee performance
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