A study on the effect of spiritual leadership and resiliency on organizational excellence among of Islamic Azad Universit’s in Khorasan Resave Province

Subject Areas : Educational Science

mehdi kafash ¹ , farshedeh zameni ² , reza yosefi saedabadi ³

1 - دانشجوی دکتری مدیریت آموزشی، واحد ساری، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، ساری، ایران
2 - استادیار گروه علوم تربیتی، واحد ساری، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی،ساری، ایران
3 - استادیار گروه علوم تربیتی، واحد ساری، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی،ساری، ایران

Received: 2017-04-20 Accepted : 2017-05-08 Published : 2017-05-22

Keywords: resiliency, Organizational Excellence, Key Word: spiritual leadership,

Abstract :

This study aims to investigate the effect of spiritual leadership and resiliency on the organizational excellence among of Islamic Azad Universit’s Khorasan Razavi Province .The survey type ofdescriptive research method was used to conduct the research. The study population included all faculty members of Islamic Azad University of Khorasan Razavi Province. totally1,200 people that 291 of them were selected randomly as sample using Morgan table.The required datawere gatheredthrough three standardized questionnaire including Spiritual Leadership Questionnaire byFry et. al (2005), Corner Davidson Resilience Scale (2003) and Muller’s organizational excellence questionnaire (2000) .The validity of the questionnaires was confirmed by the experts in the field based on content validity .The reliability of the instruments was calculated 94% for spiritual leadership questionnaire, 87% for Resiliencequestionnaire and83% for organizational excellencequestionnaire using Cronbach's alpha.Descriptive statistics (frequency, graph ...) and inferential statistics (SEM) were used for data analysis. Analyzing the research results concerning the impact of spiritual leadership and resiliency dimensionson the Excellenceit was found that statistically spiritual leadership and resiliency had positive and direct impact on organizational excellence.So based on the above it can be concluded that the higher the dimensions of spiritual leadership and resiliency in an organization of Islamic Azad Universit’s Khorasan Razavi Province the higher will be the increase in organizational excellence.