A Model for Measuring the Ethical Courage of Senior Managers in Iranian Governmental Organizations

Regarding the nature and purpose of governmental organizations, managers need to maintain their courage and ethics despite the various threats or even losing some their privileges. The purpose of this study was to provide a model for moral courage of senior managers in Iranian governmental organizations.  

In the present developmental-applied research, with a qualitative-quantitative approach, the most important indices and dimensions were first identified through existing knowledge and then by using fuzzy Delphi method, the modeling was conducted. To measure moral courage, the Blake and Moton leadership style model was adopted and the final model was fuzzy Delphi approved by 15 experts.

In this study, an interpretive structural model of factors, affecting senior managers 'moral courage, was provided, as well as a two-dimensional and five-part model of managers' moral courage classification based on scores obtained via the standard questionnaire designed in the study.

At the first level of the presented model are environmental factors; at the second level are organizational, managerial, individual factors; and at the third level are occupational factors. The final classification model based on the senior managers' questionnaire was also grouped into one of five groups (savior managers, lethal managers, fearless managers, obedient managers, and conservative managers).