Designing a Model for Managers Competencies Using the Holy Quran and Nahj al-Balaghah

Managers and their decisions are the chief factors of people’s mundane and here-after prosperity. This research aimed to identify the effective criteria on the managers’ competencies and to plan an efficient model for the managers’ election and promotion. The research method was qualitative, content analysis type, and content analysis method was employed to analyze the information. Data collection references were the Koranic verses and Nahjol-balagha speeches, and analysis unit included the content of those verses and speeches. Searching Koran and Nahjol-balagha soft-wares for such terms as competency,managers, mandation, and supervision. The results of the research showed that four themes supervise the managers’ competencies which include; vital competency as the first theme (patience, justice, honesty, flexibility, originality, well-experience, custodianship, gratitude, self-esteem, anti-corruption), convergential competency as the second theme (connivance, forgiveness, concordance, purposiveness, consultancy, popularity, non-aggressiveness, benevolence), ultra-imaginative competency as the third theme (motivation, cheerfulness, prospectiveness, criticizability, commitment, mercy, workaholicity, lucrativeness, awareness), and evolutionary competency as the fourth theme (insight, transparency, pragmatism, time-management, perseverance, confidence toward staff, self-reserve, hopefulness, conclusiveness).