Investigating Mediator Role of Organizational Health in Relationship between Professional Ethics and Organizational Virtue of Employees of Sports and Youth Departments of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province

This work was conducted to investigate the mediator role of organizational health in the relationship between the professional ethics and organizational virtue of the employees of the sports and youth departments of the Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province.

In terms of purpose, this research work was an applied one. In terms of collecting information, it was a field and correlation one. The statistical population of the work included all the employees of sport and youth service departments of the Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province (161 people). The statistical sample was selected as the total number, and was equal to the statistical population. The research instrument included the organizational health questionnaire (Hui et al., 1996), professional ethics (Kirsten et al., 2011), and organizational virtue (Cameron et al., 2004). The validity and reliability of the research instrument were confirmed. The descriptive statistics and structural equation modelings were used to analyze the data.

The results of the structural equations showed that the professional ethics and organizational health predicted 65.5% and 54.6% of the organizational virtue variance, respectively. It was also shown that the indirect effect of professional ethics on organizational virtue was 36.9%, which was determined by the organizational health mediator variable. The fitting indices of the overall research model confirmed the desirable fitness of this model.

According to the outcomes of this research work, the organization planning can be applied to improve the professional ethics using the organizational health indicators that affect the organizational virtue. As a result, the organization virtue will be achieved based on the principals of professional ethics at the individual and organizational levels