A Survey of the Relationship between the Spiritual Leadership and the Organizational Health in Bushehr’s School Province. Iran's Aspect
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This paper wants to describe the relationship between spiritual leadership (SL) and organizational health (OH). Spiritual leadership guides the processes in which people or members of an organization seek to find their calling or meaning of life, and express or match the inner voices of people with both the shared goals of the community that they feel part of and their own goals. Organizational Health (OH) is the organization ability to maintain and improve the ability to survive and adapt with the environment. The sample was survey to 380 of principles and teachers who come from of Bushehr’s school in both and private sector which were selected by random cluster sampling. We measured SL in dimensions of insight, faith and hope, conscience, participation and altruism love. To collect the data two questionnaires were distributed among the participants, Nyhan and organizational health, for which the Cronbach’s alfa respectively are 0.90 and 0.88. Regression analysis between the dimensions of spiritual leadership and organizational health indicated that five dimension of SL have entered the regression equation but the conscience has been out in equation regression. And there is significant relation between SL and OH.
Keywords: relationship; spiritual leadership; organizational health; meaning of life;
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