Mahdi Esmaili۱ - MA Public Administration, Farabi Campus, University of Tehran, Iran
Hamid Zareh - Assistant Professor, University of Tehran, Iran
Mahdi Golverdi - MA Student in Public Administration, Farabi Campus, University of Tehran,Iran

During human history, spirituality is crystallized in different ways and thereare many discussions about it. Today, one issue respected by behavior andpsychology scholars is spiritual intelligence. It is highly respected not only inindividual but also in organizational areas while in addition to psychologicalfields; it is entered into other human science areas including management. Inpresent paper, different definitions are provided on spiritual intelligence andthen its components and aspects are studied in the perspective of differentpractitioners and finally the ways to promote, grow and enhance spiritualintelligence are pointed out. Author’s broad investigations indicate that there isno consensus on the aspects and components of spiritual intelligence and hebelieves that such heterogeneity is due to different definitions by connoisseurson spirituality and their different values and cultures

Intelligence, spiritual intelligence, aspects, components