Relationship between Spiritual Leadership with Enabling among Administrative and Educational Experts in University of Gilan

This research aims to investigate the relationship and role of spiritual leadership in enabling staff members. A descriptive-analytical survey is used. Statistical population consisted of all the official and educational staff of University of Gilan in 2012-13 except its faculty. They were 650 persons from whom 100 people were chosen as sample by random Stratified sampling. In order to gather data, two kinds of questionnaires were used: Fry spiritual questionnaire with 25 questions and Spritzer enabling questionnaire with16 questions. "Face validity" and "Cronbach’s method" were used to approve the validity and reliability of the questionnaire respectively. According to this, alpha coefficient of the spiritual and enabling questionnaires were acquired 0.85 and 0.89 respectively, and it shows the good validity of the instrument. Analysis of gathered data by the use of SPSS statistical software, and also testing hypothesizes by exploiting Pearson's correlation coefficient methods -to relate different variables- were used. The main hypothesis's results showed that according to (r=0.539) there is a meaningful and positive relationship between spiritual leadership and enabling staff members. The results from extraneous hypotheses also showed that there's a meaningful and positive causal relationship between enabling staff members and other factors as follows: dimensions of spiritual leadership (instructional landscape) (r=0.365), altruism (r=0.402), belief in the job (r=0.558), being meaningful in job (r=0.341), membership in the organization (r=0.377), institutional commitment (r=0.628), and function feedback (r=0.315). Also the amount of enabling has a relation with variables such as sex, age, educational degree, and the employment condition. Today’s organizations, in order to their survival in today’s competitive world, need to care a great deal about the role of spiritual leadership in the process of enabling staff members.