Can Spiritual Intelligence Influence Decision Making in Software Engineers? Framework for Performance of Professionals in IT Sector

Performance impacts the sustainability and growth in the Information Technology (IT) sector. Effective intellectual growth and improvements are essentially focused on the versatility and agility of the mind. Since innovativeness, Software development abilities, and work satisfaction are valued in order to achieve performance excellence as required consideration for the IT industry, the concept that spiritual intelligence could have an effect on decision making and thereby performance, in the IT professionals, is strongly practicable. But this opinion is one that has not been examined yet. In this research, the possible connection between spiritual intelligence and success in the IT sector has been explored and examined through the evaluation of the influence of Spiritual Intelligence on decision-making, which manifests in performance. The research methodology included 250 participants in decision-making and spiritual intelligence (SI) surveys. The quantitative, as well as qualitative data, have been collected and evaluated to recognize if spiritual intelligence has any effect on performance/decision making and if so what abilities of spiritual intelligence, traits, attributes, or dimensions can affect what aspect of performance in terms of an individual’s decision-making style. The research in India was carried out for a period of two years, including major IT organizations involved in Research and Development and providing IT-intensive systems and solutions. The study revealed that those individuals who have a high spiritual quotient are more likely to have superior or sound decision-making manifesting in high-performance levels. This result has been further confirmed by the fact that the respondents in the survey who performed well in spiritual intelligence measurement tests had also comparatively higher performance results. This article explores the results and offers a framework of the influence of spiritual intelligence (SI) on decision making, which manifests in an individual’s performance in the IT sector