PENDAHULUAN

Perkembangan yang mencolok selama beberapa dasawarsa ini, ditandai dengan  semakin pentingnya informasi dan pengolahan data dalam banyak aspek kehidupan manusia. Dengan tersedianya berbagai bentuk media informasi, kini masyarakat memiliki pilihan yang lebih banyak bagi informasi yang ingin mereka dapatkan. Organisasi-organisasi publik maupun swasta semakin banyak yang mampu memanfaatkan teknologi informasi baru yang dapat menunjang efektifitas, produktivitas dan effisiensi mereka.
Teknologi otomasi adalah penunjang utama pembuatan keputusan di dalam organisasi-organisasi modern. Dalam hal ini, aplikasi teknologi komputer benar-benar telah menandai revolusi peradaban yang memungkinkan pekerjaan-pekerjaan di dalam organisasi dapat diselesaikan secara cepat, akurat dan effisien.
Dunia tempat kita tinggal ini tidak bisa melepaskan diri dari kemajuan teknologi informasi dan komunikasi. Perkembangan terkini, dunia pendidikan memiliki e-learning; dunia bisnis sibuk dengan e-commerse; pemerintah memulai e-government-nya. Demikian semaraknya, sekarang apapun di-e-kan seperti e-banking, e-tax, e-registration, e-campus, e-book, e-ini, e-itu, “e-ntah” apa lagi.
Istilah teknologi informasi dan komunikasi diterjemahkan dari bahasa Inggeris information and communication technology yang lazim disingkat ICT. Kemajuan teknologi ini memang dimulai dari negeri barat sana. Oleh karena itu, wajarlah jika istilah yang banyak dipakai dibidang teknologi informasi dan komunikasi ini berasal dari bahasa Inggeris.

Introduction
Spirituality in the Workplace is not a new educational topic. Since the beginning of the 20th century, there has been an increasing focus on the spirit, spirituality, and spiritual phenom¬enon in Western society. In corporate as well as higher educational settings, there have been various courses developed and implemented in the last seven or more years, with multiple titles that relate to this phenomenon. Particularly when courses or seminars on ethics, total quality environment (TQE), emotional intelligence, or the bottom line are presented, can we find influences from and referrals to spirituality in the workplace, as it has been crystallizing in understanding over the past few years. Over the last 10-15 years, a variety of scholars and writers have encouraged us to seek a path of spiritual discovery through the work that we do.
Lately, this fo¬cus has shifted to the modern workplace with numerous articles and books, both popular and academic, championing the role of spirituality in improving organizations, markets and economies, and subse¬quently all of society. Contained within this discourse is the notion that spiritual individuals are ethical in business, and consequently, are of significant benefit to an organization
The link between religion and work is not new. For centuries, people have strived to interpret their work through religious lenses. Recently, however, a significant paradigm shift has occurred. The current view is that spirituality, as opposed to reli¬gion, is a better construct for under¬standing the relationship between the individual and modern pluralistic workplaces. This current perspective, sourced in various socio-cultural fac¬tors, views spirituality as positively influencing numerous organizational outcomes. Also implicit within this discourse is the notion that allowing and encouraging spirituality in the workplace leads to improved ethical behavior at a personal level and an enhanced ethical climate/culture at an organizational level. What is unclear, however, is how an indi¬vidual’s spirituality translates into ethical behavior within an organizational context and the impact of this conversion.