Moderating Effect on Spiritual Leadership and Organizational Commitment Relationship: A Case of Malaysians' Oil and Gas Industry

The study attempts to examine the moderating effect of religiosity between the relationships of several spiritual leadership dimensions with the organizational commitment. With the understanding that people do differs in their perception, the research further explore the possibility of differences between selected demographic profiles as to their organizational commitment. A total of 203 respondents were selected from 11 oil and gas firms which are operating within the gazetted industrialized zone to be the unit of analysis for the investigation. The result of the investigation suggested that although the underlying religious belief differs between each practices, but the common issues of religion play an important role in sustaining the relationship between spiritual leadership and commitment of the employees. Similar studies on the context of spiritual leadership conducted by researchers around the world have been sparse due to the fact that the implementation of such approach is still at its infancy and the findings therefore still subject to be debatable. Thus, the findings from the study are important to contribute to the academic literatures as well as to provide enrichment in the discussion of the subject matter.