Identification of spiritual leadership factors and indicators in secondary schools

Purpose: The goal of the present research is detecting spiritual leadership factors and indicators at high schools of education system regarding interview with informants. Methodology: the current research has applied goal. The research population includes all of high school teachers of Ministry of Education in Saveh in 2017-2018 totaling 905. The research sample was based on Kerjeci and Morgan Table including 270 subjects using purposeful and snowball sampling. Data gathering tool was semi-structured interview. In this paper, at first based on theoretical and research literature detecting factors and indicators and their informants were rated on 5-scale Lickert based on significance and also proposed some answers to the open question. Data analysis was performed using mono sample t-test and the results of qualitative data were analyzed by MAXQDA software. For data analysis, average and standard deviation indexes and in deductive section discovering factor was used for detecting elements of spiritual leadership with structural equation techniques. Findings: The findings of current paper were detected from the perspective of informants and opinion makers of effective factors on spiritual leadership at high schools in 4 factors and 14 indicators. The results of mono sample t-test showed error level of α=0.05 indicating meaningful level in all factors and indicators was obtained less than error rate (α>sig=0.05). So with 95 percentage ensuring all factors and indicators were confirmed from the perspective of this research informants. Conclusion: Spiritual mangers due to virtues like bravery, justice, humanity, foresight, correct judgment, modesty in mood, behavior, perspective develop their skill and proficiency to consider constant and long-term educational activities and cause basic changes at schools.