Workplace sprituality in enhancing organization commitment that leads to improvement in employee retention of generation Y

Vincent Oh Kim Seng; David Yong Gun Fie; Abdullah Sarwar; Low Jing Hong; Junainah Mahdee; Gowrie Vinayan

Workplace sprituality in enhancing organization commitment that leads to improvement in employee retention of generation Y

Vincent Oh Kim Seng, David Yong Gun Fie, Abdullah Sarwar, Low Jing Hong, Junainah Mahdee, Gowrie Vinayan

School of Social Sciences

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Abstract

Malaysian organizations are experiencing shortage of Generation Y talents due to high turnover rate. This creates further problem as the cost of recruitment is enormous and time consuming. This proposed study is to determine the influence of workplace spirituality towards employee retention.Theoretically, this conceptual paper will be helpful for the human resource management personnels to understand towards the development of practices and policies aimed at creating or improving spirituality in the workplace. By improving spirituality climates, the organizations can promote organizational commitment which leads to better individual and organization performance.The idea of spirituality in workplace has the ability to retain employees. Organizations are increasingly evolving to be a place where employees embarked in their search for meaning. This has resulted in, the organizations to switch their focus from a strictly profit oriented, to a profit and worker well-being oriented

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Vision 2020
Subtitle of host publication	Sustainable Economic development, Innovation Management, and Global Growth
Publisher	IBMA
Pages	4701-4711
Number of pages	11
ISBN (Electronic)	9780986041990
Publication status	Published - 2017
Event	30th International Business Information Management Association Conference - Vision 2020: Sustainable Economic development, Innovation Management, and Global Growth - Madrid, Spain Duration: 8 Nov 2017 → 9 Nov 2017

Conference

Conference	30th International Business Information Management Association Conference - Vision 2020: Sustainable Economic development, Innovation Management, and Global Growth
Abbreviated title	IBIMA 2017
Country/Territory	Spain
City	Madrid
Period	8/11/17 → 9/11/17

Keywords

Generation-Y
Organization Commitment
Retention
Workplace Spirituality

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Business and International Management
Management of Technology and Innovation
Human-Computer Interaction
Strategy and Management
Computer Science Applications

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Oh Kim Seng, V, Yong Gun Fie, D, Sarwar, A, Jing Hong, L, Mahdee, J & Vinayan, G 2017, Workplace sprituality in enhancing organization commitment that leads to improvement in employee retention of generation Y. in Vision 2020: Sustainable Economic development, Innovation Management, and Global Growth. IBMA, pp. 4701-4711, 30th International Business Information Management Association Conference - Vision 2020: Sustainable Economic development, Innovation Management, and Global Growth, Madrid, Spain, 8/11/17.

Workplace sprituality in enhancing organization commitment that leads to improvement in employee retention of generation Y. / Oh Kim Seng, Vincent; Yong Gun Fie, David; Sarwar, Abdullah et al.
Vision 2020: Sustainable Economic development, Innovation Management, and Global Growth. IBMA, 2017. p. 4701-4711.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

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