A Spirituality-Based Approach to Human Resource Management in Developing Countries

This book explores how workplace spirituality, trust, and work-life balance can transform organizational performance in developing economies. Drawing on original empirical research with the Sri Lanka Air Force, it demonstrates how nourishing the inner self—through values-based practices—enhances job satisfaction, employee engagement, and productivity.

Amid globalization, automation, and rising job insecurity, the book offers a moral and sustainable framework for HRM that bridges cultural traditions with modern management theory. It challenges Western-centric models by introducing context-specific insights and showing how spiritual values and ethical leadership can drive organizational resilience and labor productivity.

Ideal for scholars in organizational behavior, HRM, ethics, and cross-cultural management seeking strategies to align human resource practices with authenticity, trust, and wellbeing, this book contributes to global conversations on inclusive growth and the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Anuradha Iddagoda is Senior Lecturer at University of Sri Jayawardenapura, Sri Lanka.

Rebecca Abraham is Professor of Finance at Nova Southeastern University, USA.

Manoaj Keppetipola is a Retired Air Vice Marshal - past Deputy Chief of Staff of Air Force officer, holding a PhD in Human Resource Management at the University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka.

Hiranya Dissanayake is Senior Lecturer at Wayamba University, Sri Lanka and a PhD Candidate at University of Sri Jayewardenapura, Sri Lanka.

Madhura Jayasinghe is Professor in the Faculty of Applied Sciences at the University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka.