Simple and Multiple Relationships between Ethical Leadership, Transformational Leadership and Ethical Climate and Organizational Spirituality among the Employees of the Iran National Steel Industrial Group

This study aimed to investigate the simple and multiple relationships of ethical leadership, transformational leadership, and ethical climate with organizational spirituality among the employees of the Iran National Steel Industrial Group in Ahvaz. This is a correlational study with a statistical population of all employees of an industrial organization in Ahvaz, of whom, 400 subjects were selected using the stratified random sampling method. The research instruments included ethical leadership questionnaire of Brown et al., General Transformational Leadership (GTL) questionnaire, ethical climate questionnaire of Hunt et al., and organizational spirituality questionnaire of Milliman et al., with acceptable validity and reliability. For testing the research hypotheses, the Spearman correlation coefficient and multivariate regression analysis were used. The results showed a significant relationship between ethical leadership, transformational leadership and ethical climate and organizational spirituality. The results of multiple regression analysis showed that ethical climate is the most important factor in explaining and predicting the organizational spirituality.