Author/Authors :
Shafighi، Fatemeh نويسنده Department of Human Resource, Saveh Branch, Islamic Azad University, Saveh, Iran Department of , , Gholamhosein Ajili، Zahra نويسنده Management and Economics, Science and research branch, Islamic Azad university, Tehran, Iran , , Gholamhosein Ajili، Amirhooshang نويسنده M.A Student of Industrial Management, Islamic Azad University, South Tehran branch, Iran ,
Abstract :
This study aims to investigate the relationship between the spiritual leadership and organizational
entrepreneurship with regard to the mediating role of organizational learning in metal industries of Kaveh
Industrial City of Iran in 2011. The population of the research included 4700 employee involved in metal
industries of Kavek Industrial City, among whom 355 subjects were selected as the research sample by using
Cochran formula and sampling method of relational stratified random sampling method. We applied the
Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) method and Smart PLS 2 to analyze the collected data of the questionnaire.
This analysis was done in two sections: measurement model and structural model. In the first section, technical
features of the questionnaire were investigated with index reliability, convergent validity and discriminate
validity of the questionnaire. In the second section, structural coefficients were used to test our proposed
hypotheses. Our results showed that spiritual leadership has a significant effect on the organizational
entrepreneurship. The findings also showed that the variable of organizational learning has a mediating role in
the relationship between spiritual leadership and the organizational entrepreneurship.
