Spiritual Intelligence and its Relationship with Organizational Citizenship Behavior: A case study [IRIB]

One of the new subjects in the domain of organizational behavior is the concept of spiritual intelligence and organizational citizenship behavior. In fact, this intelligence is the one which enables a person to make his activities and works meaningful and by dint of that, he becomes aware of his effectiveness. Spiritual intelligence, due to its connection with meaning and value, can cause a change in human beings. On the other hand, organizational citizenship behavior defines extra- role behavior which will be appeared in terms of altruism, working conscientiousness, courtesy, sportsmanship and civic virtue. Hence, in this research the concept of spiritual intelligence and its relationship with organizational citizenship behavior has been investigated. Pursuing this relationship is a brand new subject which has not been under investigation in Iran up to now. In this research 70 questionnaires were distributed to statistical community and were collected and then the results were analyzed by SPSS program. The result obtained from the Spearman Correlation Test reveals that, there is a meaningful positive relationship between spiritual intelligence and organizational citizenship behavior. In fact, there is a meaningful positive relationship between spiritual intelligence variable and aspects of altruism, working conscientiousness, sportsmanship and civic virtue. Also in order to ranking the components of organizational citizenship behavior was used the Friedman Test that the results indicate consciousness have the highest and courtesy have the lowest rank among the components of citizenship behavior.