The Effect of Spiritual Leadership on Organizational Learning Capacity Components in Payam-e- Noor University (PNU) in IRAN

The main objective of the present study is to evaluate the effect of spiritual leadership on organizational learning capacity in Payam-e-Noor University. The importance of this study is due to this fact that a spiritual leader can provide the spiritual survival of the members of organization through the use of spirituality parameters in the organization and paying attention to the values, attitudes and behaviors that are essential to their and others’ intrinsic motivation. On the other hand, such a leader can increase the organizational learning capacity of the members of organization. Therefore, this paper attempts to examine the influences of spiritual leadership on the components of organizational learning capacity in Payam-e-Nour University (PNU). Statistical population of this study includes the employees working in the central and subordinate units of Payam-e-Nour University in Isfahan Province, 250 persons of which were selected as the statistical sample using random sampling and 244 people completed (filled) the questionnaire. The data collection tool was a questionnaire based on Fry Spiritual Leadership Questionnaire (2005) and Teo&wang’s organizational learning capacity (2006). The results of this study indicated that from the perspective of employees, a spiritual leadership is effective on all the components of organizational learning capacity.