• Corpus ID: 37221849

Spiritual Leadership and Organizational Performance: An Exploratory Study

@inproceedings{Fry2006SpiritualLA,
  title={Spiritual Leadership and Organizational Performance: An Exploratory Study},
  author={Louis W. Fry and Laura L. Matherly},
  year={2006}
}

• L. Fry, L. Matherly
• Published 2006
• Business

Spiritual leadership theory (SLT) is a causal theory for organizational transformation designed to create an intrinsically motivated, learning organization. Spiritual leadership comprises the values, attitudes, and behaviors required to intrinsically motivate one’s self and others in order to have a sense of spiritual well-being through calling and membership, i.e., they experience meaning in their lives, have a sense of making a difference, and feel understood and appreciated. The effect of spiritual leadership in establishing this sense of leader and follower spiritual well-being is to create value congruence across the strategic, empowered team, and individual levels to, ultimately, foster higher levels of employee positive human health, psychological and spiritual well-being, organizational commitment, productivity and, ultimately organizational performance. The purpose of this research is to test the SLT causal model and its impact on organizational performance using a sample of 347 workers employed by a large Southwest-based distributor of electrical power-source products in 43 company owned wholesale distributorships. The results (% of variation explained) provide additional support for SLT as a significant and important driver of organizational commitment (80%) and productivity (56%) as well as sales growth (13%).