دانلود رایگان مقاله انگلیسی موثر واقع شدن به کارگیری هوش معنوی در عملیات رهبری آکادمیک زنان - امرالد 2016

ABSTRACT

Spiritual intelligence has been portrayed as an important contributor to enhanced sense of meaning and purpose within workplace leadership. There are studies on the effectiveness of spiritual intelligence done specifically in leadership practices. To address the gap, this study was designed to explore what will be the contributions of integrating spiritual intelligence within higher education environment. The study implemented phenomenological investigation. Data collection was accompanied by in-depth interview with nine female academic leaders. The finding established three main effectiveness of integrating spiritual intelligence into leadership practices: 1) employees inspired by vision; 2) increased credibility and long term sustainability of institution; 3) Heightened moral values and reduced ethical issues. It was concluded that spiritual intelligence can transform the workplace into a more meaningful and purposeful atmosphere by constructing balanced and harmonious relationship among employees.

Future direction

The finding of the study has contributed to the understanding and knowledge of women academic leadership experience on spiritual intelligence and its use in higher educational institutions. In future, the design of the study could explore the perception and experience of employees working with the leaders who have integrated spiritual intelligence practices. Though these women leaders have been portrayed to have spiritual intelligence attributes based on their interview responses, however the answers are limited to their way of interpreting the phenomenon. A future study could be conducted that interviewed people with whom those women academic leaders work and view how their responses could be compared with the self -perceptions of the leaders. Additional research also probably could be conducted on this area by including diverse settings. This implementation of multiple perspective approach would be efficient towards comparing data collected from different perspectives and sources for triangulation. The analysis from multiple perspectives would begin to reveal pattern within the expectations of different groups of participants such as academicians, administrative staff and others who have capability to give better contribution to certain spiritual intelligence attributes due to their positions within the education institutions and its broader community. The study also focused particularly on women leaders on how they integrate spiritual intelligence within their leadership practices. Conducting similar study with men leaders probably would yield additional insight into phenomena of spiritual intelligence. The final recommendation is suggested to look at different level of universities. This study focused mainly on public research university. Conducting the study at private university probably would provide different views of leadership on spiritual intelligence practices.