“Impact of Spiritual Intelligence on Leadership Competence and Sustainable Decision-Making: An Empirical Study of IT Organizations in Haryana and Delhi NCR”

Abstract

In light of the continuous change on the technological field and the growing moral maze, it is observable that the leadership of IT organizations should be more than just individuals with technical experience and good managerial abilities. This study explores the existence of societal skills and ethical decision-making skills within the scope of spiritual intelligence by gathering responses from IT professionals in Haryana and Delhi with a concentration in NCR. Finally, this tunes into leadership and decision-making, but viewed from the concept of spiritual intelligence as a contextual competency; that is it is attempted to be scientifically supported as one of the antecedents of leadership styles and decision-making behaviors. For this purpose, the study follows a positivist research strategy and communicates with IT technicians and team leaders who are employed in some of the companies within the area. Towards this end, surveys have been developed to capture the constructs of spiritual intelligence, leadership effectiveness, and acceptance of sustainable decision-making. The study further employed correlation and regression analysis to understand the relationships between the variables. The results revealed a positive relationship between spiritual intelligence and leadership competences where it was indicated that higher spiritual intelligence contributes to enhanced managerial functions by fostering interpersonal competence, empathy, moral awareness in work and valuing-led behavioral patterns. Again, such clear conclusions concerning the influence of spiritual intelligence on the thinking and reached decisions in organizations were presented, which encompassed sustainability, social responsibility and the concept of considering the interests of other dynamics in relation to the decisions made. The research finally asserts that spiritual intelligence is a frame that helps perfect how you interact with relax while also informing the development of sustainability enhanced objectives.