Title: Is spirituality a catalyst for employees' staying intention? An exploration through job crafting and employee wellbeing

Authors: Jyoti Sharma; Vriti Jain; Anuja Akhouri; Mosab I. Tabash

Addresses: Department of Commerce, University of Jammu, Baba Saheb Ambedkar Road, Tawi, Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, India ' Business School, University of Jammu, Baba Saheb Ambedkar Road, Tawi, Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, India ' Indian Institute of Management Jammu, Jammu, India ' College of Business, Al Ain University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates

Abstract: Workplace spirituality has emerged within the fields of positive organisational studies and has garnered global attention from the realm of management. The research explores the influence of workplace spirituality on employees' staying intention through job crafting and employee wellbeing utilising the theoretical approach of JD-R. The research findings are the result of a quantitative analysis of a survey of 200 employees employed in a leading private sector bank. The results indicate that job crafting and employee wellbeing fully and sequentially mediates the relation of spirituality at workplace with intention to stay. The outcomes of the current research underscore the importance of integrating workplace spirituality into the corporate culture to improve the wellbeing of employees, which subsequently affects their intention to remain. The spiritual resources can be employed as a means to manage and address perceived levels of stress, thereby enhancing their overall feeling of wellbeing.

Keywords: spiritual environment; psychological wellbeing; turnover; bottom-up approach.

DOI: 10.1504/IJWOE.2026.153666

International Journal of Work Organisation and Emotion, 2026 Vol.17 No.1/2/3, pp.95 - 112

Received: 25 Oct 2024
Accepted: 13 Feb 2025
Published online: 21 May 2026 *

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