Investigating the relationship between spiritual management in the work environment and the ethical behavior of employees in education and training in Mazandaran province

Spirituality in the work environment can bring humanity to organizations, activity to the community, and responsibility to the environment. If so; This is the most important task that our society is facing in the first decades of the new millennium. The purpose of this research is to investigate the relationship between spiritual management in the work environment and the ethical behavior of employees in education in Mazandaran province. This is a descriptive correlational research. The statistical population included all education workers of Mazandaran province in 2013-1400, numbering 1412 people. The sample size of 302 people was selected by stratified random sampling method according to gender. The data collection method was library and field. Data measurement tools included the standard questionnaires of spirituality in the work environment by Milliman et al. (2003) and ethical behavior by Lozier (1993). The validity of the questionnaires was checked and confirmed by experts and by calculating Cronbach's alpha, the reliability of spirituality questionnaires in the work environment was calculated as 0.94 and moral behavior as 0.90 percent, which showed that the questionnaires have relatively high reliability. . The method of data analysis was the use of descriptive statistics (frequency calculation, percentages, standard deviation and column chart) and inferential statistics (Kolmogorov Smirnov test and Pearson correlation coefficient test) through SPSS22 software program. The findings showed that there is a relationship between spiritual management in the work environment and the ethical behavior of employees and its components in education in Mazandaran province. As a result, spirituality in the work environment can cause employees and managers to avoid bad words and deliberate enmity with each other due to their sense of belonging to others. The more the spirituality in the work increases, the more ethical principles will be observed in the organization and the more people will adhere to them.