Workplace spirituality, teachers’ professional well-being and mediating role of positive psychological capital: an empirical validation in the Indian context

Moitreyee Paul is currently a PhD Scholar and ICSSR Research Associate under the School of Human Resource Management, XIM University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India. She is UGC-NET qualified for Assistant Professor and presently pursuing her research in the area of WS in higher education sector. Her research papers have been published in reputed journals like Journal of Religion and Health (Springer, USA) and cited in journals like Journal of Religion and Health, Environment, Development and Sustainability (Springer, The Netherlands), Information Systems Journal, Human Resource Management Quarterly (Wiley-Blackwell, UK) and Tourism Management Perspectives (Elsevier) to name a few. She has book chapter publications in Web of Science (WoS)–indexed edited book titled Spirituality in Management: Insights from India published by Palgrave Macmillan Publishers in collaboration with Indian Academy of Management and other book chapter publications in edited books titled Social Entrepreneurship and Corporate Social Responsibility by Springer International Publishing and another titled Business with a Conscience: A Research Companion by Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group). She also served as a Reviewer for the WoS- and Scopus-indexed peer-reviewed international journals named Environment, Development and Sustainability by Springer Nature and also for Psychology Research and Behavior Management by Dove Medical Press (Taylor & Francis Group).

Lalatendu Kesari Jena is an Assistant Professor (human resource) in School of Human Resource Management, XIM University, Bhubaneswar, India. He has more than 19 years of experience in both academics and corporate human resource (HR) (with Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, Indian Defence Public Sector Undertaking), including seven years as Faculty Member in HR at Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India University, Hyderabad, India, and Central University of Orissa, India. He specializes in the areas of human resource planning, performance management, learning and development and talent assessment. His research interest lies in areas such as Human Resource Management and Sustainable Development Goals; self-steering, self-organizing teams and leadership; job crafting; job insecurity; millennial’s and work ethics; return on investment in HR programs; sustainable HR through disruptive leadership; attitude and productivity; joy at work; workplace persuasion; employee retention and leadership challenges; abusive supervision; performance in multi-tasking environment; stress and coping; and meaningful engagement, and he has published papers on them in tiered national and international journals. He has completed his PhD from IIT Kharagpur, India (#=314 in QS Global World University Rankings 2021) on the topic “Workplace Spirituality and Human Resource Effectiveness” and did his Post Doc. on “Employee Retention and Leadership Challenges” at Loyola Leadership School, Universidad Loyola, Seville, Spain (ranked #581-590 in QS Global World University Rankings 2021).