SPIRITUAL MATURITY, WORKPLACE SPIRITUALITY AND ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT: A PREDICTIVE MODEL

Abstract

The practice of pastors’ spiritual maturity, workplace spirituality and employee organizational commitment have been a large amount of study in recent years. Research has found that employee spiritual maturity and workplace spirituality are significant contributors to organizational commitment and outcomes. However, there is only a little research done on the link between pastors’ spiritual maturity, workplace spirituality in Adventist Church organizational setting. This paper explored the influence of pastors spiritual maturity and workplace spirituality to their organizational commitment. A total of 85 church pastors participated in this study in East Indonesia Union Conference (EIUC) of Seventh-day Adventist (SDA). The findings showed that: (1) using Pearson’s correlation, all variables of  pastors’ spiritual maturity, workplace spirituality, pastors’ organizational commitment have a positive and significant relationship, and (2) using multiple regression analysis, both variable of pastors spiritual maturity and workplace spirituality help predict the variance in pastors’ organizational commitment.

Keywords: organizational commitment, spiritual maturity, workplace spirituality.