The mediating role of workplace spirituality on perceptions of transformational leadership, organisational commitment and employee satisfaction within a sample of South African Muslim teachers.

摘要

This study evaluated the mediational role of Muslim School teachers‟ workplace spiritualtyudon perceptions of principal behaviour, individual job satisfaction and organisationaludcommitment. In this regard The Meaning and Purpose at work scale of spirituality (Ashmosud& Duchon, 2000) was administered, the Transformational leadership Inventory (Podsakoff etudal,1990), the Organisational Commitment Questionnaire (Mowday, Steers & Porter, 1979),udand a measure of job satisfaction (Warr et al, 1979) to a sample of 219 Muslim Schooludteachers‟ throughout Gauteng South Africa. Results stemming from Pearson ProductudMoments correlations and latent variable Structural Equation modelling were used touddetermine the relationships between these variables and test the mediational model. Resultsudindicated that Muslim school teachers‟ regard their workplaces as catering to their spiritualudneeds, and are very satisfied and committed towards their organisation. Perceptions of WPSudand leadership were found to significantly predict both job satisfaction and organisationaludcommitment. Feelings of workplace spirituality were found to partially mediate betweenudteachers‟ perceptions of their leader and their job satisfaction. Workplace spirituality was alsoudfound to mediate between teachers‟ perceptions of their leaders‟ behaviour and theirudorganisational commitment. This paper concludes with the implications of these findings anduddirections for future research within this field.