Relation between Professional Ethics with Social Responsibility and Individual Accountability: Mediating Role of Serving Culture
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Background
The root of the managers and teacher's behavior and activities is the ethical and moral values. Hence, considering professional ethics and its effects is among the most fundamental research topics in organizational areas. Accordingly, the present paper has attempted to investigate the role of professional ethics on social responsibility and individual accountability with considering the mediating role of serving culture.Methods
Research method of study is descriptive – correlation. The statistical population of this study included all male and female teachers (N=550) of Javanrood city in the educational year of 2013-2014. For data gathering in this study, a sample comprising 200 teachers in Javanrood city was selected by using stratified random sampling. The data were collected through standard questionnaires of professional ethics and social responsibility and a researcher made questionnaire of serving culture. To assess the relationships between Latent and measured variables in conceptual model, the Structural Equation model was utilized.Results
Results indicate that professional ethics has a positive and significant relation with social responsibility, accountability, and serving culture. The results, also, show that the relationship between professional ethics and individual accountability is mediated by serving culture. But, the mediating role of serving culture in the relation of professional ethics and social responsibility was not confirmed. Conclusion
The results of this study hold out that professional ethics directly improves teacher's social responsibility and individual accountability. Individual accountability, also, strengthens teacher's serving culture. As a result of improved serving culture in an educational setting, we will have teacher's strong individual accountability. Keywords:Language:
Persian
Published:
Journal of Ethics in Scince and Technology, Volume:9 Issue: 2, 2014
Page:
69
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