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Workplace spirituality is an organisational value that evidenced in the culture to promote employees' experience of transcendence through the work process, facilitating their sense of being connected to others in a way that provides feelings of completeness and joy. Hence, the study of the effects of this value is very much important especially towards the organizational commitment among employees. Therefore, main objective of this research is to determine the effects of workplace spirituality on organizational commitment among employees in one of the development bank in Malaysia. In this study, the dimensions of workplace spirituality included are the sense of community, meaningful work, and work experience.. The methodology of this research is a quantitative survey that was conducted among 173 employees in the studied development bank headquarter in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. A standardized questionnaire is used in collecting data and all measurement items in the questionnaire had been adapted from the previous study. Proportionate stratified random sampling was the sampling method of this study. SPSS version 25.0 software is used by the researcher to analyse the primary data and test the hypotheses. A regression test had been used in this research to test the relationship between variables. The findings indicated that sense of community and meaningful work were significantly affecting organizational commitment whilst the work experience was not. This study also includes a discussion of the research objectives and recommendations for the organization. It is suggested that future research should extend this study among employees of other type of banks such as commercial and investment as well as other industries so that a coherent understanding could be established
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In-Text Citation: (Omar et al., 2022)
To Cite this Article: Omar, M. K., Ahmad, M. F., Mamat, R. C., Amirrudin, F. A., & Nordi, N. A. (2022). Ascertaining Organizational Commitment Via Workplace Spirituality among Employees of a Malaysian Development Bank. International Journal of Academic Research in Accounting Finance and Management Sciences, 12(1), 155–165.
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