Identification of spirituality-based organization components at the university in line with the development of human resources to provide a desirable model (Mixed Approach)

Although research has shown that spirituality in the organization leads to the development of human resources, research that looks at the modeling of components of the spiritualist organization in the university to develop human resources has been neglected.

The present study Aimed at identifying Spirituality-Based Organization Components at the University in Line with the Development of Human Resources to Provide a Desirable Model (Mixed Approach)

This is an applied study in terms of purpose, and it is also an explorative study in terms of data type. The participants in the qualitative section were the academic experts of whom 23 people were interviewed through purposive sampling and application of theoretical saturation criterion. In the quantitative section, 260 professors at universities in North Khorasan Province were selected as the sample. The analysis of the data in the qualitative section was carried out through content analysis(Creswell,2011), and the inferential statistics methods (one-sample t-test and confirmatory factor analysis) were used in the quantitative section. 

The components of spirituality-based organization in North Khorasan universities Identified were competence, compatibility, self-awareness, purposefulness, self-belief and spirituality. The results of confirmatory factor analysis showed that all factor loads were higher than 0.5 and the model was significant at (99%) confidence level and the fit of the model with a value of 2.36 was confirmed.

Findings showed that each of the components of competence, adaptability, self-awareness, purposefulness, self-belief and spirituality at the University with spiritual environment, could help people to develop human resources.