A pessoa, a organização e a espiritualidade: um estudo empírico em ambiente organizacional

• Autor(a) principal: Salgado, Cristina
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Outros Autores: Pinto, Joana Carneiro
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34632/gaudiumsciendi.2016.2911

This study aims to examine the question of spirituality at the work context of Portuguese organizations. Spirituality is assumed as the way each person, in a personal and intimate way, seeks to make sense of him/herself, of others, of the organization, and of the work itself, in search of happiness and well-being in organizations. To this end, 401 workers participated at this research, of whom 286 have functions of managers and 115 have functions of collaborators, in public and private organizations. They were assessed by the questionnaire "The values and the work", organized in 6 different dimensions (i) the person and the company, (ii) human relations at work, (iii) career, (iv) internal communications, (v) values, and (vi) spirituality. The obtained results allowed to confirm that these dimensions are valued by workers in general, and reflect the Christian sense in the working life, that is, they clarify the "presence of God" and of Christian values in the organizational practices. These results are  consistent with those obtained in previous studies at an international and national levels, and justify the investment of organizations in the field of spirituality, in so far as it constitutes an important factor in aspects such as the well-being, satisfaction, sense of success and progress, productivity, performance, and profit of people and organizations.