FUNDAMENTALS OF SPIRITUAL MANAGEMENT ACCORDING TO ISLAM; (CASE STUDY: TOP AND MIDDLE LEVELS MANAGERS OF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES OF SHAHRE-KORD CITY)

Abstract

The importance of taking into account spiritual management in organizations has attracted experts’ attention. Spiritual management is an emerging phenomenon which helps managers in disturbed and turbulent periods as a persistent resource. Managers act to
implement spiritual management in their organizations and in first step, managers’ familiarity and action according to fundamentals of spiritual management is of primary importance so that they can found their organizational structures in accordance with
defined patterns of humanity and moral values. Using religious references in interpretation of these fundamentals is concerned. Taking into account the significance of the principles, after collecting a questionnaire from 189 top and middle levels managers; it was revealed that although many of the managers consider their behavior as positive in accordance with aforesaid fundamentals, they failed in actuating and institutionalizing these principles in organization. Results showed that organizations success in achieving goals is not restricted to the application of motivating tools such as rewards and personnel require something more than such issues which are institutionalized by managers in the form of trustworthy, commitment, piety and etc. as components of spiritual management.