The Native Pattern of Professional Ethics of University Managers Based on the Nahj Al-Balagha Teachings.

The purpose of the present study is to design and explain the native pattern of professional ethics of university managers and identify its dimensions and components based on the Nahj al-Balagha teachings.

The research strategy was content analysis. And through in-depth and line-by-line reading of Nahj al-Balagha's valuable books, professional ethics in Nahj al-Balagha was extracted with the help of Maxqda10 software.

In the initial review of the text, 386 basic themes were identified. Conceptual overlapping themes were summarized in 33 organizer themes and finally organized into three universal themes. The end result of Nahj al-Balagha's textual analysis led to the emergence of the indigenous Iranian-Islamic pattern as the "professional ethics of university administrators". The most important components are: freedom of expression and independence of the vote; servitude; moderation, meritocracy.

This study presented a complete and comprehensive model of professional ethics for university managers. The guidelines of Imam Ali (AS) in this template can be used as a code of ethics for university administrators.