The Impact of Spiritual Leadership on Staff Job Satisfaction with the Mediation of Spiritual Health for Presentation of Structural Equation Model

The main reason for considering the factor of job satisfaction is to reduce employee turnover and increase the overall effectiveness of the organization. The aim of this study is to investigate the impact of Spiritual leadership on staff job satisfaction with the mediation of spiritual health.
Research method is correlation based on structural equation modeling; the statistical population consist of Orumieh university staff to number 400. The sample size was estimated by Cochran formula to number 283 that were selected by sample random sampling. the used instrument in this study is three standard questionnaires- Spiritual leadership Fry et al (2005), job satisfaction Barry Field and Ruth (1951) and index of spiritual health Palutzyan and Ellison (1982) - is that their validity was confirmed by the experts and have acceptable reliability. Data were analyzed by SPSS18 software and LISREL8/80.
The results showed that spiritual leadership has a positive correlation and significant with job satisfaction (r = 0.312; p According to impact of spiritual leadership on increasing of job satisfaction; were recommended to universities managers to operate this leadership style in their plans as common style and dominant and enhance job satisfaction and the performance of their organizations in today's competitive world.