The Role of Spiritual Leadership in Cultivating Organizational Synergy: A Systematic Review
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.61506/01.00468Keywords:
Spiritual Leaders, Spiritual Leadership in Organizations, Systematic reviewAbstract
The purpose of this research is to find out about spiritual leadership. It is emerging research topic globally. These days organizations constantly striving to create/transform stress free performance driven culture in which goals of employees and organizations are attainable. Therefore, to investigate this, researcher followed to offer an evidence well-versed solution to identity the what assumed from spiritual leadership and what is the role spiritual leadership in organization?, SLR (Systematic Literature Review), an approach incorporated from the medicinal disciplines to synthesize research in an organized, clear, and reproducible way. A well-organized screening procedure stemmed in an ultimate sample population of 54 research studies. The synthesis of these empirical research studies shown: Spiritual leadership creates synergy and harmony between organization and individual. It is positive outcomes not only limited to individual and organizations but also on peers, customers and group outside the organization. It helps individual and organizations to attain their goals explicitly. It acts as driving force which results in better performance, commitment, satisfaction and influence of the employees or the individuals to perform better his job responsibilities which ultimately results in achieving corporate goals.
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