TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION
1.0 Background to the Study
1.1 Statement of the Problem
1.2 Objective of the Study
1.3 Research Questions
1.4 Hypotheses
1.5 Significance of the Study
1.6 Scope of the Study
1.7 Operational Definition of Terms
1.8 Organisation/Plan of Study
CHAPTER TWO: REVIEW OF LITERATURE
2.0 Introduction
2.1 Concept of Workplace Spirituality
2.1.1 Sense of Community
2.1.2 Meaningful Work
2.1.3 Inner Life
2.1.4 Organisational Alignment
2.2 Differences between Workplace Spirituality and Religion
2.3 Employee Commitment
2.4 Employee Performance
2.4.1 Task performance
2.4.2 Contextual performance
2.5 Workplace Spirituality and Commitment
2.6 Workplace Spirituality and Performance
2.6.1 Human Resources Perspective
2.6.2 Philosophical Perspective
2.6.3 Community and Interconnectedness Perspective
2.7 Organizational Culture
2.8 The Nigerian Universities
2.8.1 Federal University of Technology Akure
2.8.2 Ajayi Crowther University
2.9 Theoretical Framework
2.9.1 Humanocracy
2.9.2 Theory of Psychological Ownership
2.9.3 Spiritual Leadership Theory
2.3 Empirical Review
2.3.1 Workplace Spirituality
2.3.2 Workplace Spirituality and Employee Commitment
2.3.3 Workplace Spirituality and Employee Performance
2.3.4 Commitment and Performance
2.4 Appraisal and Gaps in the Literature.
2.4.1 Appraisal of the review
2.4.2 Gaps in the Literature
2.5 Conceptual Model
CHAPTER THREE: METHODOLOGY
3.0 Introduction
3.1 Research Design
3.2 Population
3.3 Sample size and sampling Technique
3.4 Research Instrument
3.5 Pilot Study
3.6 Validity of Research Instrument
3.7 Reliability of Research Instrument
3.8 Sources of Data collection
3.9 Method of Data Analysis
3.10 Ethical Considerations
CHAPTER FOUR: DATA ANALYSIS, RESULTS AND
DISCUSSION OF FINDINGS
4.0 Introduction
4.1 Presentation of Data
4.1.1 Demographic data of respondents
4.1.2. Data on Sense of Community
4.1.3. Data on Meaningful Work.
4.1.4 Data on Inner Life
4.1.5 Data on Affective Commitment
4.1.6 Data presentation on Continuance Commitment
4.1.7 Data presentation on Task Performance
4.1.8 Data on Contextual Performance
4.2 Data collected through interviews
4.2.1 Responses from the Head of Administration, Technical,
Secretariat and Human Resources.
4.2.2 Responses from the Focus group in ACU and FUTA
4.3 Analysis of data: Test of Hypothesis
4.3.1 Decision rules
4.3.2 Data From Private University
4.3.3 Hypothesis Test One
4.3.4 Discussion.
4.3.5 Hypothesis Test Two
4.3.6 Discussion
4.3.7 Hypothesis Test Three &