Title: Workplace spirituality: an in-depth analysis of existing literature and future research avenues

Authors: Neema Gupta; Prashant Kumar Siddhey; Bhaskara Srinivas

Addresses: Department of Management Studies, Graphic Era Deemed to be University, Dehradun, India ' Prestige Institute of Business Management, No. 2, Education and Health Sector, Scheme No. 54, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India ' School of Business, Woxsen University, India

Abstract: The workplace spirituality (WPS) has been receiving significant interest in recent decades across a range of scientific disciplines and in a number of WPS-related topics, including concepts and forms of WPS, its causes and consequences, WPS interventions, etc. The current study provides a classification and summary of recent WPS literature and highlights knowledge gaps that need to be filled by additional empirical investigation. This paper systematically reviews workplace spirituality (WPS) research to identify its proved and unproved dimensions. The review synthesises 94 empirical studies published between 1999 and 2024, categorising them into conceptual, antecedent, consequential, and intervention-based themes. Findings reveal that while the conceptualisation and consequences of WPS are well established, empirical understanding of contextual and cultural influences remains limited. The paper concludes with a refined model and directions for future research on the evolving domain of WPS.

Keywords: work place spirituality; WPS; WPS causes; WPS consequences; WPS interventions; WPS literature.

DOI: 10.1504/IJKMS.2026.155258

International Journal of Knowledge Management Studies, 2026 Vol.17 No.3, pp.345 - 373

Accepted: 17 Dec 2025
Published online: 29 Jul 2026 *

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