Religion and spirituality strongly influence how most people experience the world, and opportunities to integrate faith and work abound. Yet research on religion, spirituality, and the workplace continues to have somewhat limited impact on mainstream organizational psychology and organizational behavior research. We review the most recent generation of research in this area. We describe high-level trends in the literature and summarize consistent patterns of results linking these constructs with usually beneficial attitudinal, behavioral, and other types of criterion variables. We identify four challenges that hamper progress in this area of research: conceptualizing and measuring core constructs, finding coherence amid theoretical diversity, integrating multiple levels of analysis and explanation, and navigating religion and spirituality in organizational practice. All of these challenges point to paths forward that may usher in a new wave of scholarship using meaning systems as an integrative framework, and practices that foster inclusion, integration, and both individual and organizational well-being.

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宗教、灵性和工作场所：回顾和批评


宗教和灵性强烈影响着大多数人体验世界的方式，将信仰和工作结合起来的机会比比皆是。然而，关于宗教、灵性和工作场所的研究对主流组织心理学和组织行为研究的影响仍然有限。我们回顾了该领域的最新一代研究。我们描述了文献中的高层趋势，并总结了将这些结构与通常有益的态度、行为和其他类型的标准变量联系起来的一致结果模式。我们确定了阻碍这一研究领域取得进展的四个挑战：概念化和衡量核心结构、在理论多样性中寻找一致性、整合多个层次的分析和解释，以及在组织实践中引导宗教和灵性。所有这些挑战都指出了前进的道路，可能会迎来新一轮的学术浪潮，利用意义系统作为综合框架，以及促进包容、整合以及个人和组织福祉的实践。