Document Type : Research Paper

Abstract

The goal of the present study is to investigate the relation between spiritual Intelligence, organizational commitment and job satisfaction Employees of Sport and Youth General Office of Selected Provinces. The research method is descriptive-correlation. The statistical society of this research includes all employees of Sport and Youth General Office of Selected Provinces accounted to 185 individuals; among them 125 individuals were selected as the sample using simple sampling method. Spiritual Intelligence Questionnaires of AbdoallahZade et al (2010), job satisfaction of Smith et al (1969) and organizational commitment of Allen & Meyer (1990) were used for data collection procedure; after validity was proved by experts reliability was also computed by using Cronbach Alpha. To analyze data and research assumptions tests, regression analysis and structured equations model were used through applying SPSS and LISREL softwares. Findings show that the relation between spiritual Intelligence and job satisfaction, spiritual Intelligence and organizational commitment, job satisfaction and organizational commitment is meaningful. Moreover, there is a multiple relation between spiritual Intelligence with job satisfaction and spiritual Intelligence with organizational commitment; therefore, spiritual Intelligence may predicts 27% and 23% of job satisfaction and organizational commitment variances.

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