DOES SPIRITUALITY AT WORK HAS AN IMPACT ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PASSION AND INNOVATIVE BEHAVIOR OF EMPLOYEE?

• Main Author: Fajri D.A.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Russian Journal of Agricultural and Socio-Economic Sciences 2018-06-01
• Series: Russian Journal of Agricultural and Socio-Economic Sciences
• Subjects: behavior; employee; SME; Work; spirituality
• Online Access: https://rjoas.com/issue-2018-06/article_11.pdf

The aim of this study is to determine the influence of work passion and spirituality at work on the innovative behavior of the employee. This research uses a quantitative research method which involves ninety-four respondents spread evenly throughout SMEs and Islamic cooperatives in Malang, East Java, Indonesia. The quantitative method was conducted by giving questionnaires to respondents. There are three measuring instruments used in this study, namely, work passion that has a reliability value of 0.735, spirituality at work with a reliability value of 0.937, and employee’s innovative behavior by 0.789. The first regression test showed a value of 0.290 or 29%. This means that there is a correlation between the variable of work passion on innovative behavior. On the other hand, the second regression test revealed that the previous result has increased to 0.293 or 29.3%. By looking at these results, it can be concluded that the presence of spirituality at work (moderating variables) is able to strengthen the relationship between work passion and innovative behavior of SMEs and Islamic cooperatives in Malang.