Determining the Indicators of Ethical Work Climate Based on Obligation-Oriented Approach

Due to the focus of new organization and management paradigms on the concepts like ethics, faith, spirituality, social responsibility and virtue, attempts of country’s scientific community is for domestication and presentation of organizational model suitable for Iranian-Islamic society. This research aims to determine the indicators of ethical work climate and to study the relationship of spirituality variables, obligation requirements, ethical leadership style and organizational spirituality as predictors of obligatory ethical work climate. This is descriptive-correlation study. Population of this research includes all experts and elites in management field. In sample selection process, snowball sampling method was used. Therefore, the research panel was formed by participation of 35 academic elites and religious scholars. Research tools were questionnaires that made by Delphi method. Presented model was analyzed by structural equations modeling method (SEM). Results of the study showed that applied model was a suitable theoretical model in the process of forming ethical climate and all direct relationships among the model’s variables were significant. Results of structural equations modeling showed that spirituality accounts for 71% of obligation requirements variation, obligation requirements account for 97% of organizational spirituality variation, obligation requirements account for 82% of ethical leadership variations and organizational spirituality and ethical leadership explains 83% of ethical work climate variance. Based on the findings, regulation criterion is not a suitable criterion for acting based on ethical work climate. Three principles divine command; justice and beneficence form the ethical work climate with obligation-oriented approach.