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170 unresolved questions extracted from the limitations and future-work sections of 1,645 Workplace Spirituality and Leadership papers in our library. Each links back to the study that raised it.

What the literature leaves open

  • the need for a strategic rethinking of pastoral and administrative approaches in the Orthodox Church - the lack of a theological-orthodox reinterpretation of contemporary management concepts - the need to respond to new realities without affecting tradition

    Value Innovation in Church Administration: A Theological-Orthodox Reading of the “Blue Ocean” and the ERSC Matrix · 2026 · DOI

  • The paper identifies a gap in the understanding of the relationship between spiritual intelligence and coping strategies in patients with chronic diseases. There is considerable variation in the levels of spiritual intelligence reported in the literature.

    Spiritual Intelligence and its Association with the Coping Strategies of Jordanian Patients with Chronic Diseases · 2026 · DOI

  • The lack of preparation and training for chaplains in addressing workplace bullying. The institutional indefiniteness and lack of inter-institutional liaison leading to the fragmentation of spiritual assistance. The limited continuity of support for employees experiencing workplace bullying.

    A Model of Chaplaincy Assistance for Victims of Workplace Bullying: A Qualitative Study Exploring New Resources to Support a Healthy and Safe Work Environment in Lithuania · 2026 · DOI

  • The lack of research on chaplains' involvement in mechanisms for religious coping with regard to workplace bullying. The organization of chaplaincy assistance for victims of workplace bullying has been little studied.

    A Model of Chaplaincy Assistance for Victims of Workplace Bullying: A Qualitative Study Exploring New Resources to Support a Healthy and Safe Work Environment in Lithuania · 2026 · DOI

  • The complexity of assessing critical thinking competency within transformational leadership. The need to separate spiritual constructs from indicators of mental or social health during item design and evaluation. The challenge of developing a scale that is both cognitively grounded and attentive to value-laden educational decision-making.

    Exploring Ethical and Spiritual Dimensions of Educational Leadership Among Secondary School Principals: Critical Thinking Competency Scale for Transformational Leadership (CTCS-TL) · 2026 · DOI

  • The lack of a scale to assess critical thinking competency within transformational leadership among secondary school principals. The need to integrate critical thinking and transformational leadership in educational leadership. The importance of considering ethical and spiritual dimensions in educational leadership.

    Exploring Ethical and Spiritual Dimensions of Educational Leadership Among Secondary School Principals: Critical Thinking Competency Scale for Transformational Leadership (CTCS-TL) · 2026 · DOI

  • Examining the psychological type and well-being of clergy in different cultural contexts, - Investigating the impact of ministry experience on the psychological type and well-being of clergy, - Exploring the relationship between personality expression and social norms in collectivistic cultures

    Latent Psychological Types and Well-Being of Clergy in Taiwan: Ministry Experience as a Moderator · 2026 · DOI

  • The gap is the limited understanding of psychological types and well-being of clergy in Taiwan. The traditional trait-based personality approaches have limitations in collectivistic cultural contexts. The need for a culturally tailored approach to examine the relationship between psychological types and well-being.

    Latent Psychological Types and Well-Being of Clergy in Taiwan: Ministry Experience as a Moderator · 2026 · DOI

  • The study notes the limitations of the pilot study design. The study identifies the need for additional replication studies. The study acknowledges the potential impact of personal factors, such as sex and age, and personality factors, such as introversion and emotionality, on work-related psychological wellbeing.

    Connection Between Perceived Resilience and Work-Related Psychological Wellbeing Among Anglican Clergy in Wales: A Pilot Study · 2026 · DOI

  • The study is a pilot study, - The study has a limited sample size of 123 participants, - The study only examined clergy serving in the Church in Wales

    Connection Between Perceived Resilience and Work-Related Psychological Wellbeing Among Anglican Clergy in Wales: A Pilot Study · 2026 · DOI

  • There is a lack of research on the moderating role of attachment to God in the relationship between organizational politics and employee well-being. Prior studies have focused on the negative effects of organizational politics on employee well-being, but have not investigated the factors that can mitigate these effects.

    Exploring the Moderating Role of Attachment to God in the Relationship between Organizational Politics and Employee Well-being: Evidence from South Korea · 2026 · DOI

  • Further validation of the Spiritual Meaning-Centred Leadership Scale in different contexts, - Examination of the relationship between spiritual meaning-centred leadership and teacher well-being, - Investigation of the impact of spiritual meaning-centred leadership on student outcomes

    Development and Validation of the Spiritual Meaning-Centred Leadership Scale Among Turkish Secondary School Teachers · 2026 · DOI

  • Most instruments for measuring spiritual leadership come from corporate or military settings and have rarely been adapted to school settings. Existing instruments have overlap with formal religiosity. There is a need for a valid instrument for assessing spiritual leadership in schools.

    Development and Validation of the Spiritual Meaning-Centred Leadership Scale Among Turkish Secondary School Teachers · 2026 · DOI

  • Future research could investigate the moderator role of workplace spirituality in different industries. Future research could examine the relationship between workplace spirituality and other variables, such as employee well-being and performance.

    The moderating role of workplace spirituality on the effect of organizational justice on job satisfaction · 2024 · DOI

  • The moderator or mediator effect of WPS in the relations between different variables has been examined in several recent studies, but its moderator role in the relationship between OJ and JS has not been examined. Prior studies have investigated the effect of work overload on job satisfaction and the moderating effect of workplace spirituality, but did not include organizational justice.

    The moderating role of workplace spirituality on the effect of organizational justice on job satisfaction · 2024 · DOI

  • The analysis identifies publishing trends, impact documents, authors, journals and institutions, while the qualitative review highlights the underexplored management themes and areas for future research.

    Ancient Indian Management Wisdom: A Bibliometric Mapping · 2026 · DOI

  • This study examines the extent, range, and nature of 25 years of Christian leadership literature, identifying gaps in the literature and research priorities to advance the field.

    Christian Leadership: A Scoping Analysis of 25 Years of Scholarly Literature · 2026 · DOI

  • Recent research on the concept of calling has expanded, yet differences in how various generational cohorts conceptualize calling remain underexplored.

    Conceptions of Calling: A Four Generation Inquiry · 2026 · DOI

  • Originality/value The study advanced hospitality leadership literature by integrating two complementary designs and providing novel evidence of the curvilinear effects of SL on employee RBP as well as the underlying psychological mechanism through which these nonlinear effects occur, thus presenting a multidimensional outcome rarely examined in SL research.

    From inspiration to depletion: the curvilinear effect of spiritual leadership on employee role-based performance · 2026 · DOI

  • The study explores how ethical leadership components, such as integrity, employee orientation, and ethical direction, are associated with hospital performance excellence, addressing a gap in research on leadership in Middle Eastern healthcare organizations.

    Ethical leadership and organizational excellence: the mediating role of citizenship behavior in healthcare · 2025 · DOI

  • While these findings are promising, the cross-sectional design limits causal inferences, and future research should consider longitudinal studies to examine these relationships over time.

    Examining the effects of anxiety and education level on mental health: The role of spiritual intelligence as an intervening variable in post COVID-19 patients in Indonesia · 2025 · DOI

  • CONCLUSIONS: Young nurses' occupational well-being, precarious employment, and calling should be studied further because they are in a weaker position in working life.

    The relationships between precarious employment, having a calling, and occupational well-being among young nurses: a cross-sectional study · 2024 · DOI

  • The study is limited by the heterogeneity of the included studies. The study is limited by the use of different instruments and approaches to measure emotional intelligence and spirituality. The study does not provide a quantitative synthesis of the results due to the heterogeneity of the studies.

    Emotional intelligence and spirituality in university students: an integrative review · 2026 · DOI

  • There is a lack of research on the relationship between emotional intelligence and spirituality in university students. The existing literature on this topic is heterogeneous and limited. There is a need for further research on the relationship between emotional intelligence and spirituality in university students.

    Emotional intelligence and spirituality in university students: an integrative review · 2026 · DOI

  • There is a dearth of empirical studies on nurses' flourishing, commitment, and productivity during crises. Previous empirical studies have failed to explore the role of spiritual leadership in promoting flourishing, commitment, and productivity during crises.

    Spiritual leadership, flourishing, organizational commitment, and productivity of nurses in healthcare crisis contexts · 2026 · DOI

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