Investigating the Relationship between Spiritual Intelligence and Job Satisfaction of Employees: Case of a Female University

Job satisfaction is one of the important concepts that on the one hand has brought a lot of attention in theoretical and fundamental efforts for the purpose of improving the products of human resources of organizations.It has, therefor, received considerable attention in organizational behavior and management literature.Job satisfaction is a positive emotional state that is created as a result of the evaluation of environmental conditions, characteristics and job needs, and examines what a person has versus what he wants.It is created and improved by several factors such as social support, progress, work situation, individual development, nature of work, fair reward system, job promotion of colleagues and favorable working conditions (Gol Pervar 2015 quoted in Ghaderzadeh2020).Job satisfaction is an organizational variable that is effective in physical, mental health and psychological well-being of employees.It improves the quality of work life and the efficiency of the organization as well (Lee and Huang, 2017).It is considered an important factor in organizational results and in the range of job performance.It causes Employees' health and continuity of work.It is an attitudinal variable that expresses people's feelings about their job.In a simple term, it is the level of people's interest in their job (Spector, 2006 p. 237).As the most practical definition of job satisfaction, Saari and Judge (2004) define it as a pleasurable or positive emotional state resulting from job evaluation or job experiences.Cotton and Tuttle (1986) also refer to job satisfaction as a person's