Workplace spirituality and employee well-being: an empirical examination

Employee Relations

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 975-994

  Pawar, Badrinarayan Shankar ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BANK MANAGEMENT   (India)

Author keywords

Emotional well being; Employee well being; Multiple well being forms; Psychological well being; Social well being; Spiritual well being; Workplace spirituality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84988535435     PISSN: 01425455     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/ER-11-2015-0215     Document Type: Article

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