Ethical Leadership and its Impact on Social Capital in Service Public Organizations (Case: Tehran Central Instruments and Landed Property Registration Department)

Ethics is an issue that recently a lot of attention is surrounding social capital. The goal of this study is investigate the role of ethical leadership in the production of social capital in service public organizations on Instruments and Landed Property Registration Department. The sample size of this study is 202 persons of Tehran Central’s staff. Instruments are included two specialized questionnaires (social capital and ethical leadership). To analyze the data is used SPSS.22 and PLS. Using structural equation modeling technique, the results showed significant impact of ethical leadership on all three dimensions of social capital (structural dimension, relational dimension, cognitive dimension). This means that using ethical leadership can image a common future for organizational members that create unification between them. Finally, this unification leads members to constructive engagement which is also a win-win relationship among.