The Role of Professional Ethics of Principals in Career Engagement of Teachers: ‎Mediating Role of Organizational Identity

  Since principals have many responsibilities in schools, maybe their most great ‎responsibility is creating passion and appropriate atmosphere in teachers. From introducing of organizational ethics atmosphere, a few researches have been ‎conducted about mentioned variable in relation to other variables. So, present research was aimed ‎at explaining the role of professional ethics in career engagement of teachers by mediation of ‎organizational identity. ‎ Method of this study was descriptive-correlation. Statistical ‎population of the study consists of all teachers in Ardebil’ schools (n= 5750). Among the ‎teachers, 360 members were selected according to Kerjsi and Morgan table by stratified random ‎sampling method as statistical sample. In order to collect data, three standardized questionnaires ‎was used. The collected data were analyzed by using first and second phase of confirmative factor ‎analysis and standard coefficients in SPSS and Lisrel’s software. ‎ Research findings showed that all of the relationships between variables and constructs ‎was significant and confirmed, and structural relationships of variables were more than error level ‎of 0/05 and 1/96. ‎ Findings showed that professional ethics has a ‎high path coefficient with the organizational identity variable, so it can be considered as efficient ‎and strong factor for enhancing career engagement of teachers in schools indirectly