Influence of Workplace Spirituality in Workplace Counselling Practices

Counselling can have an abundant impact on people’s lives. Trained professionals in counselling offer a huge relief for the hard moments of individuals and families. Workplace counselling is beneficial for the balance between work life and family life. Today some counsellors integrate spirituality into counselling to enhance the effectiveness of counselling. Nowadays, workplace spirituality is a trend in most organizations. Spirituality is a powerful psychological thing in-universe. One of the elements that influence workplace counselling is workplace spirituality. Therefore, this research paper aimed to identify the workplace spirituality in workplace counselling of machine operators of the apparel industry in BOI Pallekale Sri Lanka. Qualitative research approach was adopted for this research paper and the data collected through in-depth interviews from 10 respondents including managerial level employees and counsellors of the factories. Research themes have been derived from First-level analytical coding approach and thematic analysis was used in analysis of collected qualitative data. The empirical findings revealed that workplace spirituality has a significant and positive impact on workplace counselling of machine operators of the apparel industry in BOI Pallekale Sri Lanka. Along with these research findings, future researchers can investigate more depth into this paper including other sectors and they must focus on other factors which mediate and/or moderate effects of workplace spirituality under many other research themes. This research paper will help to researchers and academics also to understand the concept of workplace spirituality and its impact on workplace counselling in the apparel sector of Sri Lanka.