The Relationship between Employees' Spirituality and Organizational Vitality in Hajar Hospital, an Army hospital of the Islamic Republic of Iran, during the first year of the COVID-19 Pandemic (2019-2020)

The coronavirus pandemic has created the most fatal health crisis in humanity in the recent century. The present study was designed to investigate the relationship between employees' spirituality and organizational vitality in the outcome of the health carers' work in Hajar hospital, an army hospital in Tehran, during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. The main purpose was to determine any significant relationships between staff spirituality and organizational vitality.

This descriptive survey study was performed from March 2019 to February 2020. Seventy-one employees were recruited as the sample size using the Morgan table. The characteristic of the components of employees' spirituality were examined by performing Kingerski and Skrypnek questionnaires. All variables of the organizational vitality were determined using Rojelf model and a researcher-made questionnaire which was approved by the relevant experts. To analyze the data for determination the relationship among indicators, the structural equation model was exercised using LISREL software.

Most of the cases were between 21 and 39 years old. The results showed that there were significant relationships between all examined characteristics of the employees' spirituality and organizational vitality.

The results confirmed that there were significant relationships between spiritual desire, spiritual connection, sense of unity, mystical experience and the organizational vitality components including positive thinking, organizational learning, organizational participation, organizational openness, meaningful life, and interest. Accordingly, determining the effects of interactions among those values in their reciprocal promotions are deserved to be seriously studied to achieve an advanced and successful COVID-19 disease management.