Promoting Sustainable Careers and Reducing Burnout Through Spiritual Leadership, Workplace Spirituality, and Emotional Labor: A Sequential Mediation Model

Abstract

The current study aimed to develop a comprehensive model that increases an understanding of how an organization that entails a culture of spiritual leadership helps to mitigate burnout through intervening mechanisms of workplace spirituality and emotional labor and to promote sustainable careers. The study collected multi-timed data from 525 employees working in the banking sector of Pakistan by using a multi-stage sampling technique. The findings of the study corroborate the proposed hypothesis. The study results revealed that spiritual leadership inversely influenced job burnout. Additionally, results confirmed that the serial mediation of workplace spirituality and emotional labor on job burnout was significant. The study has several implications for academicians and practitioners. The study also highlights the significance of spiritual leadership in promoting sustainable careers in the workplace. It highlights the importance of spiritual leadership to create sustainable careers in the workplace. This study also highlights the importance of spiritual leadership, which fosters the purpose of employees and also reduces the burnout of the employees.