THE EFFECT OF SPIRITUAL LEADERSHIP ON REDUCING COUNTERPRODUCTIVE WORK BEHAVIOR APPLYING ON THE STAFF IN THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AT NINAWA GOVERNORATE

This paper aims to investigate the effect of Spiritual leadership on reducing counterproductive work behavior, and to quantify the effect of spiritual leadership dimensions on counterproductive work behavior dimensions. It relied on a survey list of 383 individuals distributed to the staff in the department of education at Ninawa governorate and 282 questionnaires were valid for analysis. The research found a negative significant effect of spiritual leadership on counterproductive work behavior, and a negative significant effect of some dimensions of spiritual leadership on dimensions of counterproductive work behavior.