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Spiritual Leadership as a Model for Performance Excellence: A Study of Baldrige Award Recipients

The purpose of this research was to test a dynamic relationship between the revised spiritual leadership model and key organizational outcomes in a sample of Baldrige Performance Excellence Program award recipients. With structural equation modeling, results revealed a positive and significant relationship between spiritual leadership and several outcomes considered essential for performance excellence, including organizational commitment, unit productivity, and life satisfaction. These relationships were explained or mediated by spiritual wellbeing. Implications for research and practice are discussed.