Meta-analysis of Factors Affecting Organizational Ethic

The Increasing complication of organizations and rising degree of unethical, illegal and irresponsible acts in workplaces have drawn the attention of managers and researchers to the issue of organizational ethic and its management. Attention to the issue of organizational ethic in recent years has caused many studies about the factors affecting ethic in the workplace. The present research is an attempt to study the most important factors affecting organizational ethic as they have already been found in studies conducted in Iran. Meta-analysis has been employed. The statistical population of the present research is all the research papers published between 2001 and 2014 focusing on organizational ethic in Iran. Finally 36 research papers were selected and analyzed using CMA2. The results indicated that overall 44 variables related to organization ethic have been studied. Out of these variables, three variables, i.e. organizational commitment, organizational culture and job satisfaction have had the highest degree of impact on organization ethic. The results of meta-analysis showed that the effect size of relationship between organizational commitment and organizational ethic was approximately 0.55 percent, which is high. Also combined effect size of relationship between organizational culture and organizational ethic was about 0.49 percent which is moderate. The results showed that the relationship between job satisfaction and organizational ethic was 0.38 percent, which is moderate.