RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EMPLOYEE SPIRITUAL INTELLIGENCE AND ORGANISATIONAL PERFORMANCE: THEORETICAL REVIEW.

By

Dr. Tordumbari Julius Nwizia & Godwin Worlu Maru

tordum4eva@yahoo.com

Abstract

This paper takes the form of a literature review of appropriate studies related to employee spiritual intelligence and organizational performance. Spiritual intelligence of an employee vividly explains how workers can quickly solve problem with use of spiritual intelligence such as openness, self-awareness, and transcendence. The paper focuses on investigating the relationship between employee spiritual intelligence and organisational performance through an in-depth theoretical review. The equity theory was used. The Harvard system (the author-date format) was used for referencing literature sources. The paper used a secondary source of data collection. The paper concluded that employee spiritual intelligence and its dimensions significantly relates to the organisational performance. It was suggested that openness should be highly encouraged among employees in order to improve organizational performance; transcendence awareness should be built in the employees in order to make decisions out of personal interest which promotes performance in the organization.

Keywords: Spiritual intelligence, openness, self-awareness, transcendence and organizational performance.