Introduction: Numerous studies have proved that people will enter the world of occupation with something more than body, mind and emotion. They will transfer their personal talents and their unique spirit. It seems that schools and educational organizations need to have more intelligent staff and teachers in order to enable them to do their jobs more effective. Today, educational institutes need teachers who behave voluntarily and attempt to help the success of the school (1). This kind of behavior which is beyond formal expectations, but is essential for the survival of the organization can be considered as organizational citizenship behavior (2).
Methodology: The present study was a field research using correlation test which has done on 80 male sport teachers in Sabzevar city. Spiritual Intelligence questionnaire developed by Farhangi (2009), and Organizational Citizenship Behavior questionnaire developed by Podsakoff et al (2000) were used. Analyses were conducted using K-S, Pearson Correlation Coefficient and Multiple Regression.
Results: There is a positive significant relation between spiritual intelligence and organizational citizenship behavior. Therefore, the results of present study showed that spiritual intelligence has positive effect on organizational citizenship behavior’s components include altruism, work conscience, devotion and sacrifice, civil virtue, respect.
Discussion: The results showed that the more the spiritual intelligence of the sport teachers are, the more it is possible to express organizational citizenship behavior. The result is in consistent with some preceding studies included Harmer (2008), Garsia & Zamur (2003), Mousavi et al (2011) and Rezaee et al (2015). The results of this research will indicate the importance of spiritual intelligence as a variable which affects organizational citizenship behavior. Therefore, it is crucial for managers and authorities to try to help the promotion of teachers’ spiritual intelligence. Because people with higher spiritual intelligence are better in communication skills, interpersonal understanding, empathy and respect.