The impact of Spirituality Leadership in Organizational Entrepreneurship in University of Tehran

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With the entry of God and spirituality into areas of organization and management, as the challenge of the twenty-first century, managers and leaders of organizations, especially educational institutions must deal with new phenomena. Therefore the purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationship between spirituality leadership and organizational entrepreneurship from view point of staffs in University of Tehran, Iran. The statistical population of the research consisted of all staffs of in the University of Tehran. Using Cochran’s sampling formula, 268 of them were selected as research sample by using of simple random sampling. The main research instrument was an electronic questionnaire. The content validity of instrument was assessed and the reliability tested by Cronach’s Alpha. SPSS and LISREL were used for data analyzing. Results showed that there was positive significant relationship among spirituality leadership and organizational entrepreneurship. In other words, the higher level of spiritual leadership, organizational entrepreneurship has been increased. In addition, the results of multiple regression analysis showed that spiritual leadership has positive impact in organizational entrepreneurship. So pay attention to spirituality can be effective in improving organizational entrepreneurship.

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