Abstract
The current research aimed to develop a model for promoting professional ethics of faculty members of the Islamic Azad University. For this, the most important components and areas of professional ethics were identified; also, relationship between professional ethics and some demographic characteristics, including gender, age and educational major were addressed. To meet this goal, a sample of education practitioners, faculty members and doctoral students was selected via a purposive sampling method for the qualitative part of the research. Also, via studying documents and interviews conducted with the academic practitioners and doctoral students, professional ethics related components were identified, and accordingly, an inventory consisting of 81 items was prepared and was administered to 600 faculty members of Azad University. Factorial analysis results indicated that the individual area consisted of 4 components, which explained 78/53% of its variance in total; organizational area consisted of 3 components which explained 68/96% of its variance and one factor was obtained within the environmental area that explained 86/82% of its variance. Results of structural equations modeling suggested that the recommended conceptual model enjoyed some acceptable goodness of fit with data. Findings pertaining to the validation of the model, including five parts (philosophy and objectives, theoretical basics, perception framework, administrative stages and evaluation system) illustrated that the model enjoys good validity from the views of experts.
Highlights
One of the main issues which is raised in professional system is the discussion of ethics and ethical components
The results which were obtained via using single sample t tests as well as confirmatory factorial analysis suggested that academic professors attached significant value for the issue of ethics and its observance in teaching and paid attention to observing this issue as well as its principles and components in their own teaching processes
The current research aimed to develop a model for promoting professional ethics of faculty members of the Islamic Azad University
Summary
One of the main issues which is raised in professional system is the discussion of ethics and ethical components. Ethics is known as one of the most important variables in the success of organizations and as professional ethics prevails, the organizations will be able to reduce tensions and attain success in regard to accomplish objectives to a great extent; having professional ethics in organizations is considered to be a competitive privilege (Salehi, 2010). The human force is considered to be the factor for a competitive privilege, either individually or collectively, and in interaction with others, peoples' judgment regarding correctness and incorrectness of tasks will influence quantity and quality of their functions and consequential successful performance of the organization. Attention to ethical principles for the organizations is known to be an indispensable necessity (Borghani Farahani, 2011)
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