Impact of Spiritual Intelligence on the

Staff Happiness (Case Study:

Golpayegan Petrochemical Company)
D R . A L I N A S R I S FA H A N I
A S S I S TA N T P R O F E S S O R , D E PA R T M E N T O F M A N A G E M E N T,
FA C U LT Y O F A D M I N I S T R AT I V E S C I E N C E S A N D E C O N O M I C S ,
U N I V E R S I T Y O F I S FA H A N , I S FA H A N , I R A N
H A M I D E H N O BA K H T
MASTER OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT ISLAMIC AZAD
U N I V E R S I T Y, M O B A R E K E H B R A N C H , I S FA H A N , I R A N
 Basic features of Spiritual Intelligence

• Some basic features associated with spiritual intelligence inclues:

 Love
 Kindness
 Honesty
 Patience
 Tolerance
 Inner peace
 Balance in the face of existential challenges
 Key features of Spiritual Intelligence
 1. Self-Consciousness: You know who you are and know you are communicating
with the whole world.
 2. Values vision and idealism: values vision reflects our humanity.
 3. Ability to deal with incidents and events: admit mistakes and use tragedy for
learning.
 4. General orientation: seeing the connections between things and being happy
and interested about everything.
 5. Diversity: flourishing and praising diversity.
 6. Field independence (Applause.): a word from psychology that means
encouraging independence.
 7. Inclined to ask why: questions are unlimited.
 8. The ability to re-frame: placing objects in a larger context of meaning.
 9. Spontaneity: is originated from the same Latin root word answers and
responsibilities that are not expressed with fear. Spontaneity is meant properly
accountable to the world.
Required Characteristics for Spiritual Intelligence

Social characteristics: Methods for intensifying:

1 - Use internal knowledge 1 – To provide time for thought reflection
2 - Capacity to endure hardship 2 – To study Life of Spiritual Pioneers
3- Sensitivity towards our goals in life. 3 – To use of personal growing activities
4 - Concerning the injustice and 4 – To use of problem-based learning on
inequity real issues
5- Enjoy Life jerks 5 - To provide time for open discussion
6 - Valuing love, compassion and 6 – To use beliefs and consider ideas
concern for others
7 - Search for your understanding 7 – To trust your inner voice and nature
8 - To want to make a difference 8 - To use What? So what? Now what?
Now, what model?
 Factors Affecting Happiness

 Job Satisfaction,
 Health
 Marital Status

Conceptual model of research (authors)

 The main hypothesis: spiritual intelligence has impact on the staff happiness.
 Secondary hypotheses: - Patience has impact on the staff happiness.
 Transcendental consciousness has impact on the staff happiness
 Spiritual experience has impact on the staff happiness.
 Forgiveness has impact on the staff happiness.
 As the results in Table 4 shows fitness indices of research model is closed to the
saturated model, which represents a good fitness of the model.
 Among the cited indices, thrifty indices don’t have suitable fitness that because of
the zero-degree of freedom (0 = DF) model can’t be modified to improve these
indices.
 In the Amos software, rejecting or approving hypothesis is done through the CR
that the results of this test are shown in Table 5.
 Table 5 - Results of Research Hypotheses Results in Table 5 show that path
between variables of transcendental consciousness, forgiveness, and spiritual
experience and staff happiness is significant (significantly less than 05/0). So
we can say that variables of transcendental consciousness, forgiveness and
spiritual experience, have positive impact on the happiness variable
respectively with the standard coefficients 292/0, 245/0 and 362/0. Among
these variables, spiritual experience variable with the 362/0 coefficient has
the greatest impact. However, according to our results, the path between
patience variable and happiness variable is not significant (significantly larger
than the 05/0), it means patience variable has n't a significant impact on the
staff happiness.
 Discussion and conclusions:

 Results related to first main hypothesis showed that spiritual intelligence

variable has significant positive correlation with staff happiness with
coefficient of 501/0 (significant p-value 0.05). So the second sub-hypothesis is
rejected.

 In the next spiritual experiences analysis, findings showed that there is a

significant relationship between transcendental consciousness and staff
happiness.

 Spiritual experiences include experiences such as feeling of unity with nature

and a sense of deep relaxation and going beyond time and place. This
component also is provided in the majority of definitions as other
components of spiritual intelligence. Achieving objectives needs to prayer and
invocation and know God observer in the all stages that this can have
significant impact on the staff happiness of Golpayegan petrochemical
company.
 In the next transcendental consciousness analysis, results showed that there
is a significant relationship between transcendental consciousness and staff
happiness and transcendental consciousness include identifying self features
and awareness of the existence of a supreme being.
 Transcendental consciousness is capacity for identifying transcendental
aspect of their self, others and physical world. Generally, transcendental is a
capacity for going beyond knowledge, consciousness and human experience,
particularly in a religious or spiritual approach.
 In this approach, human is not limited to the physical, psychological, social
aspects but have a supreme and transcendental self, accept responsibility for
their actions and attend to their behavior in the different situations and this
can have a significant impact on the staff happiness of Golpayegan
petrochemical company. In the forgiveness analysis, findings showed that
there is a significant relationship between forgiveness and staff happiness.
 In the patience analysis, findings showed that there is no significant
relationship between patience and happiness