Asian Journal of Research in Business Economics and Management
  • Year: 2014
  • Volume: 4
  • Issue: 12

Spiritual Intelligence as a Necessary Competency for Managers

Master of Executive Management, Payam Noor University, Iran

Online published on 4 December, 2014.

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to investigate spiritual intelligence as one of necessary competencies for managing an organization. Spiritual Intelligence is the intelligence that persons can place their activities and their lives in a richer, vaster, meaning-giving context. Decision making, scheduling, problem solving, leadership and etc. are some important roles of managers. Different researches shows that there are some relationships between these roles and spiritual intelligence. So we can say spiritual intelligence is one of necessary competencies of managers, especially in nowadays business world.

Keywords

Spirituality, spiritual intelligence, manager, management, competency, organization