Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 MSc Degree, Payeme Noor University, Torbat Heidaiyeh Branch

2 Associate Professor, University of Birjand

3 Assistant Professor, University of Birjand

Abstract

Spirituality at work is one of the issues discuss about of behavioral sciences of personnel. The aim of current study is determining the relationship between spirituality at work and organizational effectiveness. The population included at the personnel worked at Sport and Youth offices of Khorasan provinces (440 cases). Data analysis was accomplished by descriptive and deductive statistics. The results of the regression analysis showed that spirituality at work plays a decisive role in the prediction of organizational effectiveness. The results of the Stepwise regression analysis showed that Among the Components of spirituality at work, only two factors, organizational and individual can explain 56% of the effectiveness variance with each other. Respectively each contribution is 55 and 1 percent. Considering the spiritual Dimension of personnel in sport and youth organizations are of important factors that can lead to increase the effectiveness.

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