Relationship between Spiritual Intelligence and the Productivity of the Employees of Art and Culture Organization of Tehran Municipality

This research is intended to investigate the relationship between spiritual intelligence and the productivity of the employees of “Art and Culture Organization of Tehran Municipality”. This is a correctional study whose population includes the employees at different departments of “Art and Culture Organization of Tehran Municipality”. According to Cochrane method, a sample of 331 subjects (175 women, 156 men) was selected. A self-made intelligence questionnaire of spiritual intelligence with 25 questions (reliability = 0.85) as well as a self-made human productivity questionnaire with 28 questions (reliability = 0.90) were used for data collection. Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, Pearson correlation test and a single-sample T-test were employed for data analysis. The results indicated that there was a direct relationship between spiritual intelligence and the productivity of the Employees of Art and Cultural Organization. A direct relationship was also found out between all of the components of spiritual intelligence and the employees’ productivity. Accordingly, the researchers suggest that spiritual strategies be considered deeply in order to enhance this component and institutionalize it in the design of the general instruction strategy of the organization. As the spiritual intelligence is quite high in the employees and the managers, the ways of practical application spiritual intelligence must be investigated.