The Role of Professional Ethics in Individual and Organizational Outcomes

Abstract

Background and Aim: Compliance with professional ethics standards at medical universities can be effective in quality of the process and outputs of the academic system. The present study has been carried out with the objective of determining the effect of professional ethics on individual and organizational outcomes. Materials and Methods:The present study is a descriptive-analytic study based on structural equation modeling took on 290 employees working in Tabriz University of Medical Sciences in the academic year of 2015-2016. Sampling was done using proportional random -classified method. Four questionnaires including standard professional ethic, job engagement, quitting and increasing efforts were used to collect data. Confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling were used to analyze the data. Ethical Considerations: Oral consent of the participants was obtained and participants were reassured about the confidentiality of information. Findings: There was a positive causal relationship between professional ethics with job involvement and incremental effort (r=0.25, r=0.17, r=-0.01). Also, a negative causal relationship was observed between professional ethics and quitting (r=-0.32). There was a positive causal relationship between job involvement and increasing effort (r=0.28) and there was also a negative causal relationship between job involvement and increasing effort and quitting (r=-0.22, r=-0.22). Conclusion: Findings indicate that attention to professional ethics and its promotion among employees of the organization leads to job involvement and engagement of employees in their jobs as well as the increasing efforts of staff. Please cite this article as:Zabani Shadbad MA, Hassani M, Ghasemzadeh Alishahi A. The Role of Professional Ethics in Individual and Organizational Outcomes. Med Ethics J 2017; 11(40): 53-62. / ‫دوره‬ ‫پزشکی،‬ ‫اخالق‬ ‫مجله‬ ‫یاز‬ ‫شماره‬ ‫دهم،‬ ‫چهل‬ ‫م‬ ، ‫تابستان‬ 6931 ‫مقاله‬ ‫پژوهشی‬ ‫نقش‬ ‫اخالق‬ ‫حرفه‬ ‫ای‬ ‫در‬ ‫پیامدهای‬ ‫فردی‬ ‫و‬ ‫سازمانی‬ ‫محمدعلی‬ ‫زبانی‬ ‫شادباد‬ 1  ، ‫محمد‬ ‫حسنی‬ 2 ، ‫ابوالفضل‬ ‫قاسم‬ ‫زاده‬ ‫علیشاهی‬ 3 ‫حرفه‬ ‫اخالق‬ ‫نقش‬ ‫سازمانی‬ ‫و‬ ‫فردی‬ ‫پیامدهای‬ ‫در‬ ‫ای‬ ‫همکاران/‬ ‫و‬ ‫شادباد‬ ‫زبانی‬ ‫محمدعلی‬ 16