Contribution of Religious Strengths in Prediction of Task and Contextual Performance

This research carried out to study the role of religious strengths in predicting task and contextual performance in employees. 160 employees were randomly selected from the personnel of an electricity power plant in Isfahan as the research sample. The instruments used in this study were the Values in Action. Inventory of Strengths (VIA-IS, Peterson & Seligman 2003),the Task Performance Checklist (Byrne et al, 2005) and the Contextual Performance Checklist (Conway, 1999). The analysis of r-Pearson’s correlation revealed positive relationships between the religious strengths with task and contextual performance (p<0/001).Stepwise regression results were indicated that the spirituality and hope strengths predicted task performance, and gratitude and hope predicted contextual performance. These results suggest religious strengths of people are involved in their job performance. These findings could be used in organizations to increase task and contextual performance.