Workplace Spirituality Empowered by Spiritual Leadership to Promote Organizational Effectiveness: A Bibliometric Analysis

Purpose: Organisational environments are rapidly changing and enhancing the stress level of employees and other stakeholders which is ultimately affecting the organizational performance. The paper explores the possible role of workplace spirituality along with spiritual leadership to promote organizational effectiveness. To better examine the role of workplace spirituality and spiritual leadership in business settings, bibliometric analysis is conducted so that prominent authors, organizations, and countries can be identified for better insight into the problem. Design / methodology/approach: A total of 202 articles were retrieved from the Scopus database. All resulting datasets of 202 articles are specifically focusing on publications within the scope of “Workplace AND Leadership AND Spirituality” in “Business, Management and Accounting” area. The analysis encompassed various dimensions, including publication productivity, country-wise contributions, institutional affiliations, and author productivity. Additionally, top-cited documents, keyword analyses, network visualizations of keywords, and bibliometric coupling were explored to identify research trends and patterns. The study also reviewed literature pertaining to the applications of the workplace spirituality in business management and its implications for managerial practices. Findings: This bibliometric analysis (2014–2024) explores publication trends and their impact on Workplace Spirituality and Spiritual Leadership for Organizational Effectiveness. The findings reveal a disparity between publication volume and citation impact, highlighting that research quality often outweighs quantity, as seen in 2023 (high volume, low impact) and 2017 (moderate volume, high impact). Originality/ Value: The present article is relevant to such business owners and senior managers who are in pursuit of enhancing their organizational performance by creating a stress-free and cooperative environment in their business, using workplace spirituality and spiritual leadership.