Identifying the Components of Religious Culture Influencing the Promotion of Organizational Health in Higher Education System of Iran

This research is aimed at identifying the components of religious culture and its relation with organizational health based on the Islamic approach with emphasis on the Holy Quran, Nahj al-Balaghah and the Islamic scripts. This is an applied research which employs combined method for data collection. The qualitative section of the research runs by qualitative content analysis, and its quantitative part makes use of descriptive-correlation method. The unit of analysis in the qualitative section contains words and themes. All employees and managers of Ilam University were selected as the research community at quantitative section. Employing Krejcie and Morgan (1997) method and simple random sampling method, the researchers selected 140 individuals as the sample. In the qualitative section, two researcher-made questionnaires on religious culture including 18 items, as well as the standard health questionnaire of Lynden & Klingle (2002) with 31 items were used. Focusing on keywords and indicators related to the concepts of religious culture, the researchers identified 177 indicators in the first step. After refining, 53 indicators, 18 sub-components, and 3 main components were obtained. They were titled as special criteria, value criteria, and religious criteria. Finally, the direct effect of religious culture on the organizational health variable was tested by structural equation modeling, and a coefficient of influence equal to 51% was obtained. This figure was statistically significant, positive, and moderate.