background: a new kind of leadership, called spiritual leadership, emphasizes on serving to others, general attitude toward work, personal development, and collaborative decision making. spiritual leadership has been developed based on the philosophy of servant leadership and includes staff participation and empowerment. this research aimed to survey the relationship between spiritual leadershi...

purpose: the aim of the present study was to determine the relationship between spiritual leadership and job satisfaction among the librarians of university of isfahan, isfahan university of technology, and isfahan university of medical sciences. methodology: the research method was descriptive-correlative and the population consisted of all the librarians (n=164) in 2013. the sample was estima...

Background and purpose: The movement of spiritual leadership is a special kind of service-centered leadership which looks forward to progress and staff control. Job involvement also emphasizes timely attendance of staff, feeling successful at work, and sense of optimism and success about the future of the organization. Therefore, this study investigated the relation between spiritual leadership...

some believe that there is always a link between happiness and an individual health. this paper addresses a research question as: how does a leader’s spiritual beliefs and spiritual practices affects on happiness as perceived by ones followers. in this study, it was constructed an original model to carry out a research analysis at some universities in isfahan. the main objective of the research...

in last decade, with the entry of spirituality in organizational and managementresearch, spirituality leadership, also, has attracted a considerable amount of attention.in this study, with a developmental approach and after using experts' opinions andliterature for identifying leaders' spiritual traits and behaviors, we aim to model themusing adaptive neural-fuzzy inference systems. e...

The purpose of this study is to analyse the influence of Spiritual Intelligence to transformational leadership style displayed by student leaders. Students are the future leaders in organizations, be it in the public or the private sector. During the years spent at the institutions of higher learning, students will be able to learn and experience many types of leadership either through their ow...

How to develop the character of leaders is a challenging question pursued by managers, psychologists, and consultants. To address this question, the authors introduce a developmental model for character growth. The model proposes that the integration of the leader’s core values and beliefs into the self-identity is at the heart of character development. The supporting character strengths of age...

today business, are faced with global competition environment, and for be successful in this environment they always feel the need to radically change and creativity; and with entering spirituality into management and organizations, managers and leaders in organizations, 0should be required to deal with new phenomena. the role of spiritual leadership is to stimulating personnel by the use of sp...