INVESTIGATING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EMPLOYEES’SPIRITUAL LEADERSHIP, ORGANIZATIONAL TRUST AND JOB INVOLVEMENT AT AHVAZ JUNDISHAPUR UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES, IN SOUTHWEST OF IRAN

Introduction: This study is carried out to investigate the simple and multiple relationships between spiritual leadership and organizational trust with job involvement among staff members of Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, in Southwest of Iran. Materials and Methods: The subjects of this study were 384 non-faculty members of the university who were selected randomly from the community of about 7739 by using the Cochran formula. The subjects responded to the Spiritual Leadership Questionnaire of Fry et al. (2005), Edward Zukil Patrickjob involvement questionnaire (1984), and Morgan's et al. (1998) Organizational trust scale. In order to analyze the data, in addition to descriptive methods (frequency, frequency percentage, ...), for analyzing the research hypotheses, inferential statistics including Pearson correlation coefficient and multiple regression were used by the means of SPSS-16 software. Results: The results showed that separately there is a positive and significant relationship between spiritual leadership, organizational trust, and job involvement. There is also a multivariate relationship between these variablesso that the results of regression analysis showed that one could predict the job involvementfrom spiritual leadership and organizational trust, while the share of spiritual leadership was higherso that 64% of job involvementvariance is explained by spiritual leadership. The significance level in this study was α = 0. 000. Discussion and Conclusion: By training the right leadership methods and raising the level of organizational trust in the staff, it is possible to improve their relationships with each other as well as to create an attachment to the job to improve their efficiency in the organization. Key Words: Spiritual Leadership, Organizational Trust, Job involvement, Employees, Ahvaz, Iran.