Designing a standard instrument for measuring spirituality in IRAN civil service

Subject Areas : Public Policy In Administration

Gholamreza memarzade Tehran ¹ (ندارد)
Mehdi sanei ² (مسئول مکاتبات)

Received: 2011-02-10 Accepted : 2011-05-07 Published : 2014-10-23

Keywords: Spirituality, organizational spirituality, IRAN civil service,

Abstract :

Spirituality is a very widespread concept that everyone with personalbeliefs and values has a different interpretation from others. Some believethat spirituality has rooted in religion, but others believe that spiritualityhas no relation with formal religion and is very widespread than it. Thisproblem overshadowed the measure of spirituality and is added theproblems of measuring spirituality. However, spirituality management inthe workplaces in the first place requires having operational definition andstandard tool for measuring it. With respect to Highlighting the role ofspirituality in the success and failure of organizations in recent years andemphasizes of country top managers to strengthen spirituality in publicworkplace, in this paper, the important works that has been done formeasuring spirituality and its problems faced has been reviewed, and willtry to providing a standard tool based on country religious and culturalvalues for measuring spirituality in public organizational contexts.