Implications for research
The model outlined in this article can facilitate further
research on workplace spirituality facilitation. Some
of these research directions are outlined below.
First, it can serve as the starting point for further
conceptual research, which can make the model
more comprehensive and add more details to it based
on the inclusion of additional existing literature as
well as the literature that will emerge from the future
research in the area of workplace spirituality. Thus, it
opens up a research direction for future research to
follow for doing further conceptual research.
Second, the model also suggests research questions
for future research to examine. For instance, while
some of the linkages such as the linkage of ‘‘personal
spiritual values and practices of a leader’’ with
‘‘individual experiences of workplace spirituality’’
are empirically supported to some extent in the literature
(e.g., Fry et al., 2003), future research can
focus on conducting empirical examination to assess
support for various linkages in the comprehensive
model. More detailed theorizing and associated
conceptual research to specify hypotheses concerning
various individual linkages in the model and
more empirical research to examine support for
these hypotheses is a direction for future research
that emerges from the model.