Tahmaseb Shirvani; AliReza Omidi; Somayeh Safari
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Objective: The purpose of the present research work was to develop a model of organizational virtue based on professional ethics and organizational justice of the employees of sports and youth departments in the Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province.
Methodology: The current research work was applied in ...
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Objective: The purpose of the present research work was to develop a model of organizational virtue based on professional ethics and organizational justice of the employees of sports and youth departments in the Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province.
Methodology: The current research work was applied in terms of purpose and in terms of data collection; it was field and correlation type. The statistical population of the research work included all employees of sports and youth departments of the Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Provincs (161 people). The statistical sample is selected as a total number and equal to the statistical population. The research tools included Niehoff and Moorman (2006) organizational justice questionnaires, Kirsten et al.'s professional ethics (2011), and Cameron et al.'s (2004) organizational virtue questionnaires. In this research work, content and construct validity were used to determine the validity of the questionnaires. Also in order to measure reliability, Cronbach's alpha coefficient and composite reliability were used, the findings of which indicated the reliability and validity of the measuring tool (Cronbach's alpha was 0.9 for organizational justice, 0.86 for professional ethics, 0.87 for organizational virtue, and 0.88 overall). Descriptive statistics and structural equation modeling were used to analyze the data.
Findings: The research results showed that the proposed research model has a good fit. There is a direct and meaningful relationship between justice and organizational virtue, and almost 60% of this relationship is explained through the mediating variable of professional ethics of employees.
Conclusion: According to the findings, it is concluded that organizational justice through increasing professional ethics will lead to the development of organizational virtue, and in order to increase organizational virtue, managers should pay special attention to strengthening professional ethics and organizational justice.
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Objective: This work was conducted to investigate the mediator role of organizational health in the relationship between the professional ethics and organizational virtue of the employees of the sports and youth departments of the Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province.
Methodology: In terms of purpose, ...
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Objective: This work was conducted to investigate the mediator role of organizational health in the relationship between the professional ethics and organizational virtue of the employees of the sports and youth departments of the Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province.
Methodology: In terms of purpose, this research work was an applied one. In terms of collecting information, it was a field and correlation one. The statistical population of the work included all the employees of sport and youth service departments of the Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province (161 people). The statistical sample was selected as the total number, and was equal to the statistical population. The research instrument included the organizational health questionnaire (Hui et al., 1996), professional ethics (Kirsten et al., 2011), and organizational virtue (Cameron et al., 2004). The validity and reliability of the research instrument were confirmed. The descriptive statistics and structural equation modelings were used to analyze the data.
Results: The results of the structural equations showed that the professional ethics and organizational health predicted 65.5% and 54.6% of the organizational virtue variance, respectively. It was also shown that the indirect effect of professional ethics on organizational virtue was 36.9%, which was determined by the organizational health mediator variable. The fitting indices of the overall research model confirmed the desirable fitness of this model.
Conclusion: According to the outcomes of this research work, the organization planning can be applied to improve the professional ethics using the organizational health indicators that affect the organizational virtue. As a result, the organization virtue will be achieved based on the principals of professional ethics at the individual and organizational levels.
