Designing & Testing a Model of Some Antecedents of Ethical Behavior

One of the major concerns of efficient managers is how to create the right context for human agents working in all professions to apply them with a sense of responsibility and a full commitment to the issues in their community and profession and the ethical principles that govern them. Observe their profession. The purpose of this study was to design and test a model of antecedents of moral behavior.

The research is correlation pattern through structural equation modeling. The statistical community was all the employees of national Iranian drilling company which 238 of them were selected through random sampling method. All participants were to complete ethical behaviors questionnaire, ethical context scale, job motivation scale, organizational justice questionnaire and spirituality questionnaire. Data were analyzed using structural equation modeling (SEM) and mediation analysis.

Structural equation modeling analyses indicated that the proposed model fit the data properly. The results also supported the positive effect of ethical context on ethical behavior, job motivation, organizational justice and spirituality, positive effect of job motivation, organizational justice and spirituality on ethical behavior, and indirect positive effect of ethical context on ethical behavior through Job motivation, Organizational justice, Spirituality.

The findings of this study showed that the ethical climate in the organizations lead to many implications such as ethical behavior of employees. So, organizations can through the dissemination the field of ethics in the workplace leads to consequences of individual and organizational and thus increase productivity in organizations.