The Relationship between spiritual intelligence and job satisfaction of it professionals with special reference to it companies in Sri Lanka

Abstract

This paper focuses on identifying the relationship between spiritual intelligence and job satisfaction of IT professionals in Sri Lanka. The growing realization factor of job satisfaction as an ever-growing concern in contemporary organizations and the limited number of studies on the effect of spiritual intelligence on job satisfaction in both local and international IT contexts reveals the prominence of this research. Accordingly, a cross-sectional study was carried out among 383 IT professionals in Sri Lanka, considering spiritual intelligence as the independent variable and job satisfaction as the dependent variable. Primary data was collected via a self-administered structured standard questionnaire developed as a Google form and was analysed using SPSS. The results showed that job satisfaction and spiritual intelligence have a linear relationship demonstrating a positive correlation in the regression model. The findings have important policy implications for IT company employers who want to improve the spiritual intelligence of their workers and create a satisfied workforce. These findings are especially significant for IT company employees who should pay close attention to the substance of spiritual intelligence and strategies to develop it so they may have a fulfilling career that promotes their mental health and happiness.