Meta-Synthesis of Critical Thinking and Spiritual Intelligence of the Employees of the Ports and Maritime Organization of Iran

The purpose of this study was to identify new dimensions of critical thinking and spiritual intelligence of employees of the Ports and Maritime Organization of Iran. This research was conducted through meta-analysis. For this purpose, after searching databases in the period 1980 to 2022, 38 studies that directly examined the subject of critical thinking and spiritual intelligence of employees of the organization entered the analysis stage. Selected studies for coding were entered into MAXQDA software. After the coding process, 60 distinct codes were identified. From the identified codes; Interest in having good information (18%), awareness of opportunities to use critical thinking (16%), identification of common ideas in selected areas (13%), trust in logical search process (10%), and honesty in dealing with individual biases and prejudices (9%) were the most important in terms of the number of citations in research terms, respectively. In the next step, the codes were divided into 16 themes and finally into 4 concepts (intellectual initiative, cognitive maturity, problem-solving skills, spiritual intelligence). Achieving a comprehensive model with a hybrid method is one of the innovations of this research that can be a model for other researchers.