Abusive supervision is a form of job demand that has the potential to negatively impact both the professional and personal aspects of an employee's life. The current research presents spirituality as a novel job resource to address this concern, utilizing the job demands-resources theory. Spirituality encompasses both personal and organizational dimensions. Personal spirituality is the internal experiences, feeling of belonging, and search for meaning of a person, while organizational spirituality emphasizes the promotion of purposeful work and the cultivation of relationships among members, both within and beyond the organizational context. Two studies were conducted to test the model. First study is based on a survey from 197 Pakistan employees through Qualtrics. Second study was on 143 employees from America collected through Amazon’s MTurk. The verdicts of the study conducted in Pakistan propose that the implementation of organizational spirituality can allay the adverse influence of abusive supervision on work engagement. However, the study did not find any significant buffer effect of personal spirituality. Furthermore, current research revealed that work engagement functioned as a mediator in the process where abusive supervision negatively impacts job and life satisfaction of employees. Study also found moderated mediation with statistical significance regarding organizational spirituality. The work on the U.S. sample has corroborated the notion that personal spirituality is able to lessen the damage to work engagement caused by abusive supervision. However, this study could not find any significant moderating effect of organizational spirituality. The study confirmed the role of work engagement as a mediator in the adverse and detrimental link of abusive supervision with both job and life satisfaction.
