The Causal Effect of Spiritual Management on Subjective Wellbeing and Ethical Behavior and Investigate Their Status

Subjective well-being and ethical behavior can play an effective role in improving the management and performance of the organization. Therefore, the present study was conducted with the aim of determine the causal effect of spiritual management on subjective well-being and ethical behavior and investigate their status.

This present study was cross-sectional from type of correlation. The statistical research population was Bank Mellat employees of Tehran province in 2020 year with number of 6392 people. The sample size was estimated based on Krejcie and Morgan table 363 people who were selected by multi-stage cluster sampling method. To collect the data were used from researcher-made spiritual management questionnaire, Keyes and Magyar-Moe subjective well-being scale and Lussier ethical behavior inventory. The data were analyzed by methods of correlation coefficient, path analysis and one sample t test in SPSS-19 and LISREL-8.8 software.

The findings showed that spiritual management had a positive and significant effect on both variables of subjective well-being (Beta=0.35) and ethical behavior (Beta=0.24) (P<0.001). Other findings showed that the mean scores of the variables of spiritual management, subjective well-being and ethical behavior significantly were higher than average (P<0.001).

Considering the role of subjective well-being and ethical behavior in improving management and organizational effectiveness, to increase them can be promoted the spiritual management in organizations through training workshops and improving organizational conditions.