Document Type : Research Article
Authors
1 Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Management, Ramsar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ramsar, Iran
2 MA of Economic, Department of Economics, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
Introduction
Since organizations need to develop and apply professional ethics standards for their dynamism and survival, organizational virtue is one of the consequences of professional ethics in the organization and one of the structures affecting the psychological well-being of employees, so the aim of this study was to investigate the mediating role of professional ethics in the relationship between organizational virtue and psychological well-being of employees.
Method
The research method was descriptive-correlational based on structural equation modeling. The statistical population of the study was all 420 employees of the General Department of Education of Mazandaran Province. The sample size was 201 based on Krejcie and Morgan table and was selected by simple random sampling method. To collect the data, three questionnaires of organizational virtue of Cameron et al., Ryff and Singer psychological well-being and Cadozier professional ethics were used. SPSS and Amos24 softwares were used for data analysis.
Results
The results showed that There is a positive and significant relationships between organizational virtue with professional ethics and psychological well-being and between professional ethics and psychological well-being of employees and organizational virtue have direct and significant effects on professional ethics and psychological well-being of employees. Also, the indirect effect of organizational virtue on psychological well-being was mediated by professional ethics with the Sobel test at a confidence level of 0.95.
Discussion
Therefore, it can be said that organizational virtue based on professional ethics can be effective regarding psychological well-being of employees. In other words, organizational virtue, by arousing positive emotions in employees and ethical and beneficial behaviors, creates positive images of the organization in the minds of individuals and strengthens trust and a sense of loyalty in them and empowers employees to perform better tasks, and prepares employees regarding the benefit of the whole organization.
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