The Relationship between Spiritual Health and Organizational Health among the Staff of Qom University of Medical Sciences
Journal of Pizhūhish dar dīn va Salāmat (i.e., Research on Religion & Health),
Vol. 7 No. 4 (2021),
22 December 2021
,
Page 7-18
https://doi.org/10.22037/jrrh.v7i4.30517
Abstract
Background and Objective: Organizational health is the ability of an organization to reach its goals effectively in order to achieve growth and development. Organizational health refers to the permanence and survival of the organization in its environment and adaptation to it and the promotion and expansion of its ability to further adapt to the environment. Therefore, investigating the factors affecting organizational health needs special consideration. Thus, the purpose of the current study is to study the relationship between spiritual health and organizational health among the Staff of the Qom University of Medical Sciences.
Methods: The research method is descriptive-correlational and the statistical population includes 150 staff of Qom University of Medical Sciences. In order to collect the necessary data, 108 respondents were determined as the minimum number of the sample size using Krejcie and Morgan’s table. To collect data, two standardized questionnaires were used for measuring spiritual health and organizational health after confirming the reliability and validity. Further, for data analysis, correlation coefficients were used. In this study, all ethical considerations were observed and no conflict of interest was reported by the authors.
Results: The findings showed that there is a significant relationship between spiritual health and organizational health. Further, the results show that the statistical population enjoys a moderate level of organizational health and high level of spiritual health.
Conclusion: In summary, it can be claimed that spiritual health is one of the factors which can predict organizational health. Therefore, in order to improve the level of organizational health, managers of organizations can pay attention to spiritual health to achieve competitive advantage.
- Organizational Health; Spiritual Health; Staff; Management; Hospital
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