Moral intelligence in the university: non-academic staff

Moral intelligence means the capacity and ability to understand right from wrong, having strong moral beliefs and acting on them and behaving in the right direction. The purpose of the present study is to determine the level of moral intelligence of non-academic staff of Shahid Beheshti University. The mentioned research is a research with a descriptive-analytical quantitative approach. The research community included non-academic staff of Shahid Beheshti University's education units, 87 of whom were randomly sampled and included in the study. The data in question were collected through the Lennick and kiel questionnaire and analyzed using Spss version 16 software. Based on the findings of the research, the level of moral intelligence of the non-academic staff in the education units of Shahid Beheshti University is higher than the average and at a high level from their point of view. Also, the honesty component has the highest average rating, on the other hand, the ability to forgive others' mistakes has the lowest average rating. The desired level of moral intelligence of the staff of education units in the university can lead to the effective role of the university in the moral development of students and, consequently, human resources at the community level.