In today’s highly competitive business scenario, effective and efficient leadership symbolizes one of the key growth elements. The purpose of this paper is to understand the spiritual leadership behaviour exhibited by managers and how it impacts the development of work stress among employees. Another objective is to understand the impact of spiritual leadership on organisational culture in different automobile agencies in the NCR, India. Design/methodology/approach: A careful mix of qualitative (focus group) and quantitative (structured questionnaire survey) research methods was used for the present study. The study was conducted on 147 mid-level employees who were working in different automobile agencies located in the NCR. The partial least squares structural equation modelling technique (PLS-SEM 3.3.6 version) was used to test the conceptually drafted model.