Analyzing the Relationship between Ethical Variables with Extra-Role Behaviors

Each organization needs people who are willing to sacrifice their participation in activities for changing conditions, these behaviors exceeded expectations, but for important of survival of organization they called extra-role behavior. In the meantime, according to the essence of the Imam Khomeini Relief Foundation, extra-role behaviors are very important among employees. Accordingly, the aim of the present study is to answer the question whether the ethical climate, ethical leadership and ethical philosophies can have a relationship with employee's extra-role behaviors of Imam Khomeini Relief Foundation of Guilan Province.

The research is applied in terms of objective – correlation. Population of the study includes all staffs of Imam Khomeini Relief Foundation. Among all, 236 staffs were studied through simple random sampling method. Data were gathered by standard questionnaire. Also, Data were analyzed by structural equation modeling and SPSS 20 and lisrel8.54.

Results show that ethical leadership, organizational ethical climate and ethical Philosophies have a relationship with extra-role behaviors. Also, the relationship with ethical leadership and ethical climate was confirmed.

According to the findings, it can be said that increasing the level of ethical components in organization will lead to the high level of extra-role behavior in employees.