The Model of Professional Ethics based on the Organizational Commitment and Organizational Justice with Mediation of Quality of Work Life in Nurses
Keywords:
nurses, quality of work life, Professional ethics, organizational justice, organizational commitmentAbstract
Professional ethics indicates compliance a set of occupational and professional principles and standards and accordingly, research on it is essential. Therefore, the aim of this study was to design a model of professional ethics based on the organizational commitment and organizational justice with mediation of quality of work life in nurses. This study in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was correlation. The current research population was all the nurses working in the hospitals of Ahvaz city in 2023 year, which 320 nurses were selected as a sample by multi-stage cluster sampling method. The research tools were include questionnaires of professional ethics (Cadozier, 2002), organizational commitment (Allen & Meyer, 1990), organizational justice (Colquitt, 2001) and quality of work life (Walton, 1973). The data of this study were analyzed by structural equation modeling in SPSS and AMOS software. The findings of this research showed that the model of professional ethics based on the organizational commitment and organizational justice with mediation of quality of work life in nurses had a good fit. Also, the findings showed that the direct effect of organizational commitment on quality of work life and professional ethics, the direct effect of organizational justice on quality of work life and the direct effect of quality of work life on professional ethics were positive and significant (P<0.05), but the direct effect of organizational justice on professional ethics was not significant (P>0.05). In addition, the indirect effect of job organizational commitment and organizational justice with the mediation of quality of work life on professional ethics was significant (P<0.01). According to the reported results, in order to improving the professional ethics of nurses can provide the basis for increasing their organizational commitment, organizational justice and quality of work life.
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