On the relationship between ethical behavior in organizations and organizational citizenship behavior with mediating role of spirituality in the workplace of middle school principals and assistant principalss

The present research has examined the relationship between the ethical behavior in an organization and organizational citizenship behavior with the mediating role of spirituality in the workplace of junior school principals and assistant principals of Gorgan. The research is applied in terms of the objective and is a descriptive research of a correlation type in terms of the method. The population consisted of 400 principals and assistant principals of junior high school in Gorgan among 179 were selected according to Kerjesi and Morgan tables by stratified random sampling. Data collection tools included the Questionnaire of Spirituality in the workplace of Mili Min et al., Organizational Citizenship behavior of Padsakov et al., and the standard questionnaire of ethical behavior of Broun et al. Path analysis was used to analyze the data. The findings showed that there is a relationship between the components of ethical behavior (professional ethics, regulatory ethics, and instrumental ethics), and the components of citizenship behavior (social customs, work conscience, and protection of the organizational resources) with the spirituality of junior school (first-level high school) principals and assistant principals of Gorgan. Also, the dimensions of ethical behavior in the organization through spirituality have a positive and indirect relationship to the organizational citizenship behavior.