Factorial Structure and Internal Consistency of Ethical and Organizational Virtuousness Questionnaire

Paralleling the many scandals of organizations and consequently damaged public trust to them, positive organizational scholarship focused on the notions such as virtue, moral character, and virtuous organization. With this approach, the purpose of this study was to examine the factorial structure and internal consistency of organizational virtuousness questionnaire.
Research method was descriptive-correlation. Statistical population was Roads and Urban Development General Directorate staff of Kerman and 118 subjects were selected using random sampling. To investigate the factorial structure of organizational virtuousness questionnaire, confirmatory factor analysis was used and to determine its internal consistency, Cronbach's alpha coefficient was used.
The results showed that the factorial structure of organizational virtuousness questionnaire consists of five dimensions of optimism, trust, compassion, integrity and forgiveness, was confirmed. The internal consistency of the questionnaire components being in the range of .709 to .830 that was acceptable.
According to the findings, validity and reliability of five-factor version of Organizational Virtuousness Questionnaire, is good and can be used in future research.