Studying the effect of psychological empowerment and its antecedents on moral identity of employees (studied in Zamyad company)

Moral identity in formation of appropriate behavior of the employee is extremely important. So many bankruptcies and scandals are due to the lack of ethics in organizations. And this has led to the interest of market participants and researchers to the subject of moral identity employees. Therefore, understanding the factors influencing moral identity can be useful and effective. The aim of this study was to investigate the role of psychological empowerment and its antecedents (high performance work systems and power-sharing) on moral identity of The Zamyad Co. The population of research consist of 150 managers and specialists of engineering and quality control sections, The random sampling method was employed and according to Morgan table 108 samples were selected. A combined and standard questionnaire was used as data collection tool, Spritzer(1995) psychological empowerment questionnaire, Chen et al (2014) Questionnaire power-sharing, Aquino and Reed(2002) Moral identity questionnaire and Beltrán etal (2005) HPWS Questionnaire,which its validity was confirmed by faculty and its reliability was confirmed by Cronbach's alpha and combined reliability. Structural Equation Modeling with partial least squares method through Warp PLS software has been used as data analyzing. The results of this study showed that high performance work systems and power sharing has significant influence on psychological empowerment, and psychological empowerment has significant influence on moral identity.