Abstract

The present paper aims to study the relationship between spiritual intelligence and job satisfaction among female high school teachers in Isfahan. It was a descriptive-correlation research. Population included all female high school teachers of Isfahan (2015) in academic year 2013-2014. Sample size calculated was 320 teachers by Krejcie and Morgan’s table and using multi stage random sampling method. Pearson correlation coefficient, stepwise regression, and multivariate analysis of variance were used for data analysis. Evidence from this study showed that spiritual intelligence and some of its components creating personal meaning and transcendent consciousness have a significant relationship with job satisfaction. Regression results showed that transcendent consciousness is capable of predicting job satisfaction. Key words: Spiritual intelligence, job satisfaction, female teachers.

Highlights

  • Organizations do not operate in a vacuum, but are constantly under the influence and pressures which are imposed upon them from within themselves and outside.These changes and developments in the modern era always create opportunities and threats to organizations.In such a situation, successful organizations are those that adapt themselves to the circumstances and comply with changes (Sharifzadeh, 2009).Only organizations can act in such a way that their employees enjoy high spiritual Intelligence

  • The results of this study showed that spiritual intelligence and job satisfaction are not affected by gender

  • The researcher sought to examine the following hypotheses: 1- Spiritual intelligence and its components have a relationship with job satisfaction in female high school teachers

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Introduction

Organizations do not operate in a vacuum, but are constantly under the influence and pressures which are imposed upon them from within themselves and outside.These changes and developments in the modern era always create opportunities and threats to organizations.In such a situation, successful organizations are those that adapt themselves to the circumstances and comply with changes (Sharifzadeh, 2009).Only organizations can act in such a way that their employees enjoy high spiritual Intelligence. Organizations do not operate in a vacuum, but are constantly under the influence and pressures which are imposed upon them from within themselves and outside. These changes and developments in the modern era always create opportunities and threats to organizations. In such a situation, successful organizations are those that adapt themselves to the circumstances and comply with changes (Sharifzadeh, 2009). Organizations can act in such a way that their employees enjoy high spiritual Intelligence. Some theorists of management recommend the issues of spirituality in work and spiritual intelligence to cope with changes of today’s complex world (Cavanagh, 1999).

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