title: The impact of workplace spirituality dimensions on organisational citizenship behaviour among nurses with the mediating effect of affective organisational commitment.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate the relationship between workplace spirituality dimensions and organisational citizenship behaviour (OCB) among nurses through the mediating effect of affective organisational commitment.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  Nurses' OCB has been considered recently to improve the quality of services to patients and subsequently, their performance. As an influential attitude, affective organisational commitment has been recognized to influence OCB, and ultimately, organisational performance. Meanwhile, workplace spirituality is introduced as a new organisational behaviour concept to increase affective commitment influencing employees' OCB.
  
  
  METHODS
  The cross-sectional study and the respective data were collected with a questionnaire-based survey. The questionnaires were distributed to 305 nurses employed in four public and general Iranian hospitals. To analyse the data, descriptive statistics, Pearson coefficient, simple regression, multiple regression and path analyses were also conducted.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The results indicated that workplace spirituality dimensions including meaningful work, a sense of community and an alignment with organisational values have a significant positive relationship with OCB. Moreover, affective organisational commitment mediated the impact of workplace spirituality on OCB.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The concept of workplace spirituality through its dimensions predicts nurses' OCB, and affective organisational commitment partially mediated the relationship between workplace spirituality and OCB.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Nurses' managers should consider the potentially positive influence of workplace spirituality on OCB and affective commitment among their nurses. With any plan to increase workplace spirituality, the respective managers can improve nurses' performance and would be of considerable importance in the healthcare system.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Management and Human Resource Development, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai, Malaysia. fkazemi2000@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Farahnaz
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Kazemipour
authors.forename: Salmiah
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mohd Amin
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000339:Affect; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007492:Iran; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D009718:Nurse Administrators; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000523:psychology; D015279:Organizational Culture; D010558:Personnel Loyalty; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D029181:Spirituality; D017132:Workplace