Abstract
Nowadays, professional development in organisations, particularly educational settings, has led to highest productivity, as it is considered as one of the organisational empowerment competencies. The present study was conducted to explain the share of spiritual leadership in envy management of faculty members of Islamic Azad Universities of East Azerbaijan province through the role of professional mediator. This study was a descriptive and correlational study that was conducted using structural equation modelling. The sample of this study consisted of all faculty members, of the rank of assistant professor or higher, in the academic year of 2014-2015 and 316 subjects were selected by Cochran formula. The results showed that there is a positive and significant relationship between spiritual leadership and envy management of faculty members and professional development, so that in investigating the direct and indirect relationship between variables, spiritual management has been effective in organisational envy management. The proposed model enjoyed the goodness of fit. As a result, faculty members, with suitable professional development and the atmosphere of managers' spiritual leadership can prevent envy and these goals will be achieved when the professional development of faculty members in avoiding envy is seriously considered.
Highlights
Nowadays, envy among staff is one of the issues that has gripped most government agencies, universities and higher education centres which has led to decreased staff motivation
This study was conducted to investigate the effect of perceived spiritual leadership on organisational envy management through professional mediator role
In explaining the direct effect of perceived spiritual leadership on organisational envy management of faculty members, it should be stated that there is a significant relationship between these variables, but due to explaining its direct effect, the hypothesis was rejected
Summary
Envy among staff is one of the issues that has gripped most government agencies, universities and higher education centres which has led to decreased staff motivation. According to this challenge, it can be stated that jealous staff have lower organisational commitment and as a result, they cause direct and negative effect on organisational performance. It can be stated that jealous staff have lower organisational commitment and as a result, they cause direct and negative effect on organisational performance Those who are involved in this context, do not care about future, because based on their view, past and future are the same (Danaeifar, 2011). Envy is a bad trait that indicates a kind of psychological and mental distress in humans and can overshadow other positive and valuable features, weaken and destroy them
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