Association between Institutionalization of Ethical Culture with Quality of Work Life

Ethical culture and Quality of Work Life (QWL) are two intertwined work environment factors of organizations. Ethics raises our awareness in our acts, and also can increase our consciousness about our reciprocal obligations in the society. The objective of this research is to monitor relationships between different forms of ethical culture institutionalization and quality of work life and to direct the attention of the organizations management toward this topic, so in this research, it is attempted to investigate the association between explicit and implicit forms of ethical culture institutionalization and quality of work life in Health Organization Management of Qom province.

For this, it has been used descriptive – correlation method and the data has been collected by questionnaire. Moreover, Data has been obtained from employees of Health Organization Management in Qom province that were selected by random sampling.

According to the result, it has been showed that there is meaningful relationship between institutionalization of ethical culture and quality of work life. Between ethical culture dimensions, in addition, implicit institutionalization has meaningful impact on quality of work life too.

According to the findings of the research, organizational managers should emphasize on institutionalization of ethical culture (implicit form and explicit form) and specially make more effort on reinforcement of the implicit dimension of institutionalization.