The Relationship between Professional Ethics and Organizational Trust with Psychological Empowerment of the Teachers

The main objective of this study was to investigate the relationship between ethics and organizational trust with regard to the teacher's psychological empowerment. The study population consisted of all secondary school teachers of public schools in the academic year 1392 to 1393 in five regions of Tabriz education bureau, the number of whom was 2,100. The sample, based on the Morgan table included 322 people, who were selected by random sampling cluster ratio. Descriptive , correlational method was used in this study.
To collect the data the questionnaires of professional ethics, organizational trust of Seyed Jajvadayn (1388) and psychological empowerment questionnaire of Spreitzer
(1995) were used. Reliability coefficient of the questionnaire using Cronbach's alpha was as follow: for professional ethics (α =0.93 ) and institutional trust (α=0.88) and psychological empowerment (α= 0.87), respectively. To analyze the data the Pearson correlation and the SPSS22 software was used.
The results show that there is a significant positive correlation between professional ethics and its components and psychological empowerment. Also there is a meaningful relationship between organizational trust and psychological empowerment of the teachers. Also, regression test results indicate confirmed linear relationship to predict the psychological empowerment organization based on professional ethics and trust. The results of this study show that there are significant differences between male and female teachers in variables such as accountability, truthfulness, justice, loyalty, hegemony and competition, respect for others, compassion for others and self-organization, there are significant differences. While there is no significant difference between them in respecting the values and norms in terms of social and psychological empowerment.