Organizational Spirituality in Yazd's Shahid Sadoghi Hospital: an Islamic Approach

Spirituality is a very broad concept that everyone considering his or her beliefs and personal values make a distinguishing different interpretation about. Some believe religion-based root for spirituality and others express that spirituality has nothing to do with religion and is extremely beyond this border. Since spirituality in our society is based on religion and Islamic doctrine makes the shape of spirituality and with respect to the fact that spirituality in organizations may make a proper base for individual and organizational comprehensive growth, the current study is conducted with the goal of investigation and identification of affecting factors over organizational spirituality according to the religious and national patterns. The method used in this study regarding applied goal and the way of data collection is survey – descriptive method. Statistical community of this research is composed of all personnels of Shahid Sadoghi Hospital in 2013 (N=351), among them 183 individuals were selected as the sample. Data collection was accomplished using a reliable and reasonable questionnaire. Data was analyzed using descriptive and analytical statistical tests. Data analysis showed that 10 following factors are being considered as affecting factors regarding organizational spirituality: virtues, spiritual, contextual, structural, leadership, cultural, innovative, religious, motivational, and social virtues. According to the research findings, we may conclude that these 10 factors (although in different degrees) are important in order to employ organizational spirituality at hospitals based on proper requirements of Iranian culture and principles of holy Islam. Hence, it is required that officials and policy makers of hospitals undertake an appropriate plan to boost and maintain these factors between the personnels.