The Influence of Spirituality training on the Organizational commitment, Employee Retention and Employee Engagement of Primary school administrators

This study was done to determine the effectiveness of spirituality training on organizational commitment, employee retention and employee engagement of the administrators of primary schools of Sabzevar city. This study was semi -experimental and pretest-posttest with control group. The statistical population of this research was all administrators of primary schools of Sabzevar in the academic year 2015-2016 that 30 administrators of primary schools were selected by available sampling method and randomly assigned to two experimental group (15 persons) and control group (15 persons), then both groups were given pre-test. The experimental group received spirituality training during 10 sessions (each session 90 minutes), while the control group received no intervention. After completing the training program, the two groups were given a post-test. Data was collected using questionnaires of organizational commitment, employee retention and employee engagement that their validity and reliability have been reported to be desirable. The collected data was analyzed using descriptive statistics methods and covariance analysis with the help of SPSS23. The results showed that spirituality training had an effect on the organizational commitment, employee retention and employee engagement of the administrators of primary schools. Also, Training of spirituality explained organizational commitment variance (37%), employee retention (41%), and employee engagement (26%). Therefore, spirituality training has a significant effect on of organizational commitment, employee retention and employee engagement of the administrators of primary schools.