Spiritual Intelligence, Organisational Stressors and Workplace Excellence A Theoretical Perspective

Today, organizations around the world are facing several problems with no appropriate solutions. Employees find themselves puzzled in focusing even on the short term goals; the long term goals remain abstracted. Even though the organizations have achieved immense expansion in technology and innovation, the sustainability of the organization is still a distant dream. The modus operandi towards achieving productivity and performance may have been successful but the wellbeing of the employees in the organisations is still at stake. Employees find it difficult to cope with everyday stress, anger, fear, disharmony with co-employees, and many more. Apart from managing emotions and maintaining interpersonal relationships, leading and managing the hurdles have also become intricate. The inner self has somehow got disintegrated and the purpose of achieving happiness is simply adding profits to business and staying ahead of competition. Happiness has been typically operationalized as job satisfaction. The inner peace and satisfaction have completely lost its essence. At this expository point, a different intelligence more relevant and inclined towards spirituality has been recognised recently. Today, many leaders and employees from organisations all over the world have projected their work culture towards spiritual intelligence. The need to incorporate spiritual intelligence to maintain emotional and interpersonal balance and well being chiefly at workplaces is something that has been a topic of research in recent years. This paper, thus, explores the depth of spiritual intelligence, within the self by emphasizing its various aspects and then incorporating it within the organisation through the practice of different components to rediscover happiness within one-self, harmony with co-employees and excellence in overall development in the workplace.