CREATING SPIRITUALITY IN THE WORKPLACETO INCREASE WORK PERFORMANCE OF MODERN ORGANIZATIONS

Spirituality in the workplace becomesthe hottest issue in the past decades until the present time. Modern organizations are now paying much attention on helping employees to achieve their hope and dream through company cooperation, concerning about employees wellbeing and welfare, and respect to individualism. Happiness, success and growth of employees are parts of organizational responsibility because employees and organization are interrelated as they can produce both negative and positive effects to each other. The purposes of this article were to find the meaning of spirituality in the workplace, the current situations of spirituality in the workplace, advantages of spirituality in the workplace, and an implementation of spirituality in the workplace. The findings showed that spirituality in the workplace is a recognition of employee that promotes employees experience to work with joy, happiness and friendliness in the organization. Modern organizations pay much attention on spirituality in the workplace because they believe it can improve employee satisfaction, employee commitment, employee wellbeing and happiness at work, which lead to increase organizational performance such as productivity, profitability, innovation, competitiveness, customer satisfaction and customer service.