Relationship between " Conscientiousness, Ethical Climate and Ethical Leadership" and Organizational Virtuousness

The recent moral and financial collapse of several high profile organizations around the world has led the business community and the popular and business press to rediscover the worthiness of organizations virtues. The aim of this research was to examine the relationship between “conscientiousness, ethical climate and ethical leadership” and organizational virtuousness among an industrial company employees in Ahvaz, Iran. Study method is descriptive-correlation method. Population consists of the whole employees of industrial company in Ahvaz. Sample includes 227 this employees that have been selected with stratified random sampling method. The instruments which used in this study include personality, ethical climate, ethical leadership, and organizational virtuousness questionnaires. The correlation coefficient and multiple regression analysis are used for analyzing the data, and factor analysis is used to examine the validity of organizational virtue. The results showed that there are positive and significant relationship between predictive variables conscientiousness, ethical climate and ethical leadership with organizational virtuousness. Results of regression analysis showed that ethical leadership, ethical climate and conscientiousness respectively play a main role in explaining the variance of organizational virtuousness. The results of this study show that both personality traits and environmental factors are good predictors in shaping organizational virtue. Therefore, the organizations should be organized for presence and efflorescence of the constituent, so that this result in positive organizational consequents.