Professional Ethic in Development of Production Process; From Craft to Mass Production

The topic of ethics in manufacturing process refers to compliance of ethical dimensions in manufacturing systems. In the other words, in production systems, besides improving efficiency, the function of ethics is one of the important issues. Due to this, the goal of this research is to show the impact of production process maturity on environmental protection and, employees’ safety and development as two dimensions of ethics. In this article three variables are tested in level of organization that includes: maturity of production process, environmental protection, and safety and development of employees. For gathering data from production units, we used questioner which based on literature review. The data from sample of research, include 110 production units in Mashhad, was analyzed by the structural equation modeling and then the actual model of research was presented. Base on results, maturity of production process has negative direct effect on environmental protection and has no effect on employees’ safety and development With move from craft production system to continues flow system, environmental protection will reduce but type and direction effect of maturity production process on employees’ safety and development is not clear And conclusions in this area requires further experimental investigation.