Influence of Workplace Spirituality on Organization Engagement and Commitment in the County Government of Trans Nzoia

Abstract

For an organization to realize its objectives, it has been argued that its human resource base forms an important nexus between coming up with appropriate strategies and actualization of the same over time. This requires that an organization develops a highly satisfied, innovative, dedicated and creative workforce through a process of a strategically planned updated code of practices that caters for their spiritual, financial and emotional wellbeing. The goal of the study was to determine the influence of workplace spirituality on organization engagement and commitment in the County government of Trans-Nzoia. Towards the realization of the objective, the study adopted a descriptive survey research design and for sampling purposes, stratified sampling was adopted whereby 10% of the four cadres‟ population was taken and for the purpose of distributing the questionnaire, purposive sampling technique was adopted. Descriptive measures of mean and standard deviation was adopted for analysis and to establish the relationship between spirituality and employee engagement and commitment, a simple linear regression was adopted. Spirituality among employees enhanced the sense of love among workmates irrespective of their actions in the workplace and make employees to strive understanding their workmates so that they can accommodate them in every situation thereby improving organizational performance. In regard to the influence of workplace spirituality on employee engagement and commitment, the findings suggested the existence of a significant positive relationship between the variables. It was recommended that county Government of Trans Nzoia strive to put in place policy that will enhance sustain and improve spirituality in the workplace. Apart from the general human resource development and management policies, it was recommended that the Council of Governors in conjunction with the Ministry of Public Service should develop specific policies on organisation engagement and commitment. For many years public service productivity has remained low; especially in central government; implementing policy on spirituality in the workplace will greatly enhance engagement and commitment thus increase productivity. It was recommended that both national and county government enact and implement policy that would enable employees find meaningfulness and purpose in their work; have them identify themselves with their work; have control and belief in what they do, this maybe just what they need to bring down corruption. The study concluded that indeed workplace spirituality as an organizational tool, if considered strategically, organizational performance can be increased as a result of improved employee engagement and commitment.