Investigating the Relationship between the Dimensions of Spiritual Leadership and Job Motivation from the Perspective of Shahrekord Education Staff

Leaders also use the indicators of spirituality in the organization or group to provide a kind of internal motivation for the external motivation of its employees. Spiritual and value-based leaders deepen the duties and activities of followers in the organization or group by relating them to their deep inner values. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the dimensions of spiritual leadership and job motivation of Shahrekord education staff.

The statistical population of all education staff in Shahrekord city in 1399-98 was 335 people were selected as a sample by the classification method appropriate to the volume. The research instruments included two standard questionnaires of Herbert's job motivation and a modified questionnaire of spiritual leadership by Fry [17].

There is a significant relationship between seven dimensions of spiritual leadership (vision, love of altruism, faith in work, meaning in work, organizational membership) with job motivation of education staff, but between the other two dimensions of spiritual leadership, i.e., organizational commitment and performance feedback has nothing to do with employee motivation. In fact, the more the components of meaningful leadership are applied in the atmosphere of an educational organization and the decisions, procedures, policies and missions of education are formulated and implemented based on the dimension of spiritual leadership, the more job motivation will be among the employees of this educational organization. Originality/Value: The results of this research can be used by managers, experts and researchers.