Presenting the Ethical System Model of Policymakers of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology

The institutionalization of the ethical system of policy making in the policy makers can be the basis for the development of ethical values in the organization, with the understanding of this importance, the current study aims to provide a model to explain the ethical system of the policy makers of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology.

This research is a type of qualitative study that uses foundational data theory. The participants in the research were the experts of the Ministry of Communication and Technology (senior managers and experts) and university professors, 14 people were selected as a sample from the judgmental non-probability sampling method. The tool was an interview and the concepts were extracted using the open coding method of Strauss and Corbin.

major and core categories in the form of 6 dimensions of causal conditions, including (fear of God and religiosity and possession of skills and competences), background conditions (cultural infrastructure, effectiveness and efficiency of organizational processes, investment educational), intervening conditions (cognitive skills of managers, friendliness and tolerance), central category (rule of law, quick response, trustworthiness of managers), strategies (efficient regulatory regulations, participatory management, justice-oriented) and consequences (reduction of administrative corruption, improvement of community satisfaction, meritocracy, transformation and improvement of the administrative system, human resources satisfaction) were upgraded to a higher abstract level and finally the research paradigm model was presented.

The development of ethical system in the ministries of communication and information technology can become the foundation of ethics in policies, and the model presented in the present research can be used to reach this important point.