Journal of Human Values

Workplace spirituality has emerged as a remarkable area of study in the field of management and organizational behaviour over the past two decades. Researchers have extensively explored its impact on employee engagement, job satisfaction, organizational citizenship behaviour and performance. The present study employs bibliometric analysis to examine the existing literature on workplace spirituality. It analyses 400 relevant articles from the Scopus and Web of Science databases from 2003 to 2023. The research identifies influential authors, pertinent journals and key trends using two analytical tools, that is, the R package and VOSviewer. It creates network diagrams and cluster visualizations representing connections and relationships among the authors and keywords. The findings reveal consistent publication growth, highlighting influential articles and key contributors. The study emphasizes the need for more empirical research on individual and organizational outcomes concerning workplace spirituality. It suggests incorporating diverse methodologies, such as qualitative and mixed-method approaches, to enhance understanding. The insights provided serve as valuable information for academics, professionals and organizational leaders, offering a comprehensive understanding of spirituality in the workplace and promoting the overall well-being of employees.

The workplace encounters challenge due to the absence of inclusive environments, resulting in potential loss of top-tier talent, diminished productivity and diminished business performance. This research endeavours to construct a comprehensive framework for the integration of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) individuals, focusing on embedding gender and sexual minorities. This study examines the relationship between diversity-friendly workplace management and LGBT integration through advocacy by allies (ABA) and family role modelling. The research framework is constructed based on the principles of sociometric, signalling and family systems theory and is undertaken within the Indian IT/ITES sector, involving 546 employees across 9 technology parks through a survey methodology. The analysis was carried out utilizing Smart PLS software, employing structural equation modelling and making predictions using partial least squares. Mediation and moderation analyses were performed. Findings demonstrate that effective management of diversity-friendly workplaces has a favourable impact on the integration of LGBT individuals in work environments. Results also suggest that ABA plays a supporting role in this relationship through complementary mediation, while the influence of family role modelling is moderated. This study contributes substantially to both theoretical understanding and managerial practices. A cross-cultural, longitudinal and a qualitative perspective could have added more insights to the study.

Research on pro-environmental behaviour (PEB) among Indian adolescents is limited but growing. The Value-Belief-Norm (VBN) theory suggests that values underlie PEB, but the factors influencing these values require further exploration. Identifying antecedents to values may help instil biospheric values and personal norms among adolescents to foster PEB. This study investigated mindfulness, particularly the observing dimension, as an antecedent predicting PEB. It also explored the mediating roles of biospheric values and personal norms to understand how mindful observation enhances PEB, especially among adolescents. The study involved 642 adolescent school students (329 males, 313 females) aged 13–15. The authors developed self-reported questionnaires in Tamil to assess biospheric values, personal norms and PEB. Mindful observation was evaluated using the Adolescent and Adult Mindfulness Scale. Serial mediation analysis revealed that the indirect pathway from mindful observation to PEB via biospheric values and personal norms was significant (β = 0.33, 95% confidence interval (CI) [0.27, 0.39]). This shows that mindful observation enhanced biospheric values, which, in turn, influenced personal norms to foster PEB. Also, this suggests that mindful observation is a potential antecedent to biospheric values, highlighting the importance of cultivating mindfulness and instilling biospheric values among Indian adolescents to strengthen their personal norms towards PEB.

Religion, concerned with the existence of a transcendental force or the realm of the supernatural, has remained an integral part of social life from time immemorial. With the onset of ‘modernity’ and the ‘Age of Reason’, the rationalists believed that in due course of time, religion would lose its authority in shaping the contours of the individual as well as collective life. However, the fact is that religion not only has remained one of the most robust social institutions of society but has also been flourishing in its new avatars. Drawing upon historical and contemporary sources, this article argues that while science and rationality have the potential to liberate mankind from various natural and social constraints, it is religion (non-rational) that brings order and meaning in social life. Rational and non-rational, if understood properly, do not share an antagonistic but a relation of complementarity. Irrationality injects fissiparousness into society, but non-rationality supports the cohesion of society.

The post-war period in Europe was a period of contradictions; on one hand, there was disenchantment with greater visions of life and history; while on the other hand, there was a revival of the enchanting mythical worlds in literature and popular culture. The postmodern condition as described by Lyotard was twilight of grand narratives and at the same time it opened up possibilities of a newer narrative to assert itself. The dissolution of the modernist self as well as the construction of a new self that was master of the language games played in an information society happened at the same time. The aim of this article is to look into the fields of popular culture and emerging management discourse that is relying on mythology, narratives and storytelling, to figure out how they are reinventing a lost bardic tradition by using language as an indispensable tool in shaping up individuals and societies. This article argues that in the postmodern age, a new idea of ‘self’ has simultaneously taken shape whose template overlaps with the ‘epical self’, relying on language as an important mode of transformation. This article makes a case for deeper and nuanced understanding of popular cultural elements and usage of language in management literature.