Spirituality in organizations: a bibliometric study of the main Brazilian academic search engines

Abstract

The influence of spirituality in organizations is widely known, a subject more widely covered in developed countries. However, searches were done on fifteen of the main search sites of academic articles used in Brazil with the keywords "Spirituality in organizations" from which content was found Useful for current research in just five of them, which are: BDTD, EDUCATIONAL ABSTRACT ADMINISTRATION, GOOGLE ACADEMIC, SPELL and SCIELO. Extracting sixty-nine (69) articles analyzed in the period of 10 years (2005-2015). For that, a bibliometric study was used for these quantitative analyzes. At the same time that the importance of the subject is seen in the most diverse organizational spheres there is still little study on the subject in Portuguese language, still less empirical research on the subject. This article intends to analyze through bibliometric study what has been written so far in Portuguese on spirituality in organizations mapping the publications due to the growing interest in the positive results achieved in productivity and satisfaction in the work environment. It is clear that the proper theme is in the spotlight of Brazilian researchers, and it is fundamental that articles are produced in this theoretical-methodological perspective.