Author(s)

Jianglin Ke¹, Fengju Zhang², Xiaocen Yan³, Ya Fu⁴

¹Organization and Human Resource Management Department, School of Government, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.
²Corporate Training Center, School of Continuing Education, Pecking University, Beijing, China.
³School of Government, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.
⁴Melbourne Business School, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia.

The current research on workplace spirituality effect is mainly carried out in the west, lacking evidence of China background and attention to university teachers, although the groups are called soul engineer in China. In order to test the effect of workplace spirituality on employee engagement of Chinese university teachers, this study collected239 samples by convenient sampling. The results of structural equation model test showed that the workplace spirituality of university teachers had a positive impact on their engagement, in which professional commitment played a partly mediating role. The results suggest that universities should strengthen their spirituality construction through various strategies.

Workplace Spirituality, Employee Engagement, Professional Commitment, Chinese University Teachers, Mediating Effect

Ke, J. , Zhang, F. , Yan, X. and Fu, Y. (2017) The Effect of University Teachers’ Workplace Spirituality on Employee Engagement: Professional Commitment as Mediator. Creative Education, 8, 2147-2154. doi: 10.4236/ce.2017.813145.