A Multi-Criteria Decision Framework to Measure Spiritual Intelligence of University Teachers

Spiritual Intelligence (SI) is an emerging concept in the realm of spirituality. In the current scenario of human development, there is a dire need to integrate spirituality into management, education, research and technology. In fact, a proper convergence of spirituality with the research performance of university teachers may lead to the development of a strong academic learning process. Since SI encompasses a multitude of the dimensions as its construct, a suitable and effective multi-criteria decision framework is proposed to measure SI. The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) has been established as a robust multi-criteria decision-making tool and thus, will be apt for generating SI index which is termed as spiritual quotient (SQ) by considering the SI construct. An illustrative case example is also considered to show the applicability of the proposed decision framework. (C) 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.