THE ROLE OF SPIRITUAL HEALTH ON HEALTH SYSTEM STAFFS’ JOB SATISFACTION

one of the most effective factors on organizational behavior is the staff’s job
satisfaction. Spirituality and spiritual wellbeing of staff is an inseparable personal element that
influences on their job satisfaction. The aim of this study is deterring role of staff spiritual wellbeing on
job satisfaction in Khoy health and treatment system.
Material & Methods: In this descriptive- correlational study, 330 staffs of khoy health and treatment
system entered in the study by strata random sampling. Data were gathered by two tools, Paloutzian and
Elisson spiritual wellbeing scale (1983) and Herzberg job satisfaction scale (1996). Then data were
coded and entered into SPSS 18 and analyzed through descriptine and inferential statistics indices. All
of ethical issues was considered by authors.
Results: 10.7% of samples were medical doctors, 85% B.S and 4.3% M.S. 17% of them were in high
social class and 31% were satisfied from economic status. 68.5% of nurses, 66.32% of laboratory and
radiology experts, 48% of headquarter staff and 31.42% of doctors and managers had high spiritual
wellbeing and 0%, 0%, 65 and 8.58% of them had low spiritual wellbeing respectively. Doctors and
managers, laboratory and radiology experts, nurses and headquarter staff had the most job satisfaction
orderly. There was meaningful direct positive correlation between spiritual wellbeing and job
satisfaction of samples. There was a positive meaningful correlation between satisfaction from economic
status with spiritual wellbeing and age with job satisfaction only.
Conclusion: Nurses had the highest spiritual wellbeing and the lowest job satisfaction and doctors had
the lowest spiritual wellbeing and the highest job satisfaction. The positive correlation between spiritual
wellbeing and job satisfaction showed that using spiritual and religious rituals can promote staff job
satisfaction and lead to high organizational productivity. According to results staff education to create
commitment, stress reduction, increase spirituality, stabilizing staff employing status and increase their
salary is recommended.