Spirituality, recruiting, and total wellness: Overcoming challenges to organizational attraction

As individuals and organizations are more consciously exploring the intersection of spirituality and work the question arises as to what impact spirituality will have in terms of organizational recruitment. Drawing on the literature surrounding recruitment, as well as signaling theory, diversity, and person-organizational fit, we explore the potential influence of spirituality on organizational attractiveness. After considering the various organizational motivations for projecting spirituality into recruitment efforts, we develop attraction-related propositions associated with those distinct motivations. Finally, we propose that a singular approach to contextualizing spirituality will have the most positive effect on organizational attraction regardless of organizational motivation.