Spiritual Leadership Diamond In Iran Civil Service

Subject Areas : مدیریت

gholam reza memarzadeh ¹ (دانشکده علوم انسانی، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد علوم و تحقیقات، تهران، ایران)
mehdi sanei ² (دانشکده علوم انسانی، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد شاهرود، ایران (عهده دار مکاتبات).)

Received: 2011-02-26 Accepted : 2011-09-06 Published : 2011-08-23

Keywords: Spirituality, Organizational Spirituality, Spiritual leadership diamond, Iran civil service,

Abstract :

Success or failure of organizations largely depends on the quality of their leadership. In order to achieve organizational goals, leaders utilize certain techniques and features, some of which have unique characteristics while others display special behaviors. The success of some techniques and features depends on their followers. In recent years, new approaches of leadership have been introduced including transformational leadership, servant leadership, and charismatic attributes. Among the new approaches to leadership, spiritual leadership has gained particular significance. In this article, the concepts and dimensions of spiritual leadership are reviewed and characteristics of spiritual leaders in Iran civil service from the experts’ perspective are examined. At the end, using exploratory factor analysis, characteristics of spiritual leaders in Iran civil service have been reduced and grouped into five classes. These classes are: respect to organization benefits, respect to employee benefits, respect to society benefits, individual characteristics, and respect to self. The sum of these characteristics will form the spiritual leadership diamond.