Spiritual Intelligence, Quality of Life and Length of Service as Predictors of Organizational Commitment among Power Sector Employees

Organizational commitment is a positive construct and important for the organizational development. The need is to find out the factors responsible for organizational commitment especially when employees focus more on individuals' goal rather than organizational goals. In this context the paper is an attempt to understand the concept of spiritual intelligence and quality of life at the work place and whether they contribute towards organizational commitment or not? 120 employees power sector industry were selected for the study. Senior and junior employees were approached; Seniority was based on the tenure in the same organization and not the total number of experiences. The results exhibited positive correlation among spiritual intelligence, quality of life and organizational commitment and also found significant difference between senior and junior employees on all the three variables. It was noted that among the junior employees the variation of scores were wide on spiritual intelligence and organizational commitment whereas senior employees had very less variation and that also towards higher scores. Quality of life scores were reported to be high with lesser variations among both seniors and juniors employees. The study determined a significant positive relationship among spiritual intelligence, quality of life and organizational commitment. The findings also revealed, the tenure of service in the organization was related to higher spiritual intelligence which develops the connection at work place that leads to commitment towards organization.