Spiritual Intelligence and its Impact on Police Performance (A Case Study of Boroujerd Police Command)

"Spiritual intelligence" is one of the concepts that has been proposed and developed by some psychologists in the light of their attention to the field of spirituality. Ever since managers realized the need to instill a sense of purposefulness and meaningfulness in employees, and some studies showed that strengthening this intelligence can improve the quality of job performance and help organizations achieve their goals, spiritual intelligence found its way into organizational domain, too. Given the importance and necessity of this issue for military and law enforcement organizations, the main purpose of this study is to explain the effect of spiritual intelligence on the performance of police staff.

The present study is based on the descriptive method and collection of field data. The statistical population includes 350 staff of Boroujerd Police Command. A group of 182 individuals was selected as the sample, and the data collection instrument was Sohrabi and Naseri's valid questionnaire (2013). The data were entered into SPSS 20, and the analysis was performed in descriptive and inferential areas.

"Transcendent consciousness", "spiritual experiences" and the spiritual attributes of "forgiveness and patience" are the components of spiritual intelligence that, according to the findings of this study, have a significant relationship with the performance of police staff. Among these components, the spiritual attributes of "forgiveness and patience" have the greatest impact on the performance of police staff, and "spiritual experiences" and "transcendent consciousness" are in the next ranks, respectively.

Considering the research findings, it can be accepted that spiritual intelligence is effective in improving the performance of the police, and the higher the level of spiritual intelligence in police staff, the better their service provision.