Moderating roles of workplace spirituality on work-life balance and employee engagement among bank employees in Delta State.

Abstract

The study examined the moderating roles of workplace spirituality on work-life balance and employee engagement among bank employees in Delta State, Nigeria. The participants were 249 bank employees whose ages ranged from 26 and 49 years with a mean age of 33.50 years and a standard deviation of 3.20. The study adopted a correlation design using moderated regression statistics to test the hypotheses using two regression models. The result indicated that there were significant correlations among the variables with the work-life balance having negative but significant correlations with workplace spirituality and employee engagement. Analysis of the Beta coefficient showed that work-life balance has a negative significant predictor effect on employee engagement at β = -0.72, p < .01 (n = 249) while workplace spirituality had a positive predicting effect at β = 0.44, p < .01 (n = 249). It was found that work-life balance significantly predicted employee engagement, workplace spirituality significantly predicted employee engagement, workplace spirituality significantly correlated work-life balance and workplace spirituality significantly moderated the relationship between work-life balance and employee engagement among bank employees in Delta State, implying that workplace spirituality reduced the negative effects of work-life balance and improved employee engagement. It is recommended that there is a need to explore factors which increase or decrease workplace spirituality among employees as this could help management to establish motivational paradigms which may be catalysts to the sustenance of workplace spirituality to reap its attendant organizational benefits.