Spirit at Volunteering: A Case of Chung-ping Neighborhood in Taichung City
| Autor: | Hsiu Yu Dai, 戴秀羽 |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
| Druh dokumentu: | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Popis: | 102 The purpose of this study was to explore the volunteers’ spirit at volunteering in Chung-ping Neighborhood in Taichung City, Taiwan and the differences between workplace spirituality and spirit at work. Participants were 6 volunteers aged from young adult to middle age. An in-depth interview was conducted to explore the four dimensions of Spirit at Work Scale (SAWS) at individual level: engaging work (EW), mystical experience (ME) and spirituality connection (SpC), and at group level: sense of community (SoC). SAWS was then back-translated into Chinese and expanded into semi-structured interview questions, conducted to similar participants with taped-recording in interviewing and text transcribing for following grounded theory analysis and coding. Finally, the findings showed that (1) the differences between workplace spirituality and spirit at work were proven that the former was an alignment with organization and individual; however, the latter comparatively aligned work experience with individual on mentally and physically; that (2) the participant’s experience in engaging work responded to the congruency between one’s values and meanings merged at volunteering; that (3) mystical experiences from participants’ descriptions were divided in two contexts. At volunteering: positive feelings were proven, but the loss sense of time failed; off duty: more mystical experiences merged even more intensively than at volunteering; that (4) spiritual connection was not proven to be the guidance, and that (5) sense of community positively responded to coherence between connections and volunteer team’s purposes or values. The result could provide future researchers with important insights into differences between workplace spirituality and spirit at work and emphasis on spirit experiences at working. |
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