Abstract
M.Phil.
Research has indicated that the phenomenon workplace spirituality has a positive impact on organisational reality through its positive effect on both management processes and leadership practices. It is in this context that the growing interest in workplace spirituality as a field of inquiry becomes clear and the importance of workplace spirituality is reflected. The rationale for this study emanated from the researcher’s desire to explore the experiences of a leader of spirituality in a specific workplace and to understand how scholarly works, specifically the PPL framework and research done by Labuschagne (2012), would accommodate these experiences.
The purposefully selected sample comprised of a manager working for a period longer than three years within a specific workplace. She worked with people and managed a team of employees. The primary data collection method was interviews that elicited the life story of the participant. The data were coded and organised according to the research questions. From the analysis, eight themes emerged that resulted in four key findings.
The findings revealed that (1) experiences of spirituality in the workplace require awareness of oneself; (2) workplace spirituality and spirituality experienced outside of the workplace should not be separated; (3) workplace spirituality can be experienced regardless of whether interventions or actions are created to make it spiritual; and (4) experiences of spirituality in the workplace can be created, yet there are factors that can hinder the experience of workplace spirituality. In the context of these findings, it was found that the PPL framework, as well as research done by Labuschagne (2012), can be used to illuminate the world of a manager in terms of experiences and views of workplace spirituality.