Identify and Determine the Status of the Indicators of Related Factors of Managers' Moral Competency in Treatment Centers

nowadays, the social responsibilities of the managers in the work have drawn the attention of the researchers and experts in the management field. Thus, the present study aims to identify and determine the status of the indicators of related factors of managers' moral competency in the healthcare gas industries.

the present study is a developmental and applied research in terms of its objectives; it is descriptive research in terms of the study’s nature, and it is a survey study in terms of the method. The study population included 1) the first group has consisted of the experts familiar with the managers’ qualifications in terms of moral competency, and 15 individuals were selected from amongst the academic professors and experts featuring the required scales; 2) the second group was comprised of the senior and middle managers working in the healthcare gas industry of Iran’s national gas company (582 individuals), and 232 individuals were selected from amongst them using Cochran formula based on the random cluster sampling method in proportion to the cluster’s volume. Then the main problems of management were specified and discussed the ways to solve those using multi-criteria methods.

By using the Delphi technique, a questionnaire was designed for the factors related to the moral competency qualifications of the managers in the healthcare gas industry, and it was composed of 84 questions covering eight indicators. The questionnaire’s content validity was 92.7%, and Cronbach’s alpha coefficient was calculated above 0.7 for the variables. In order to analyze the data, univariate t-test in SPSS was used. The results indicated that the mean statuses of the indicators of related factors of managers' moral competency qualifications were in a significant level (0.05), and this was reflective of the idea that these variables were in a favorable situation in the company. However the values have been found not so much high that it can be accordingly stated that the managers’ moral competency qualifications were being well evaluated and enhanced in this organization.

It can be concluded that moral competence and holding all circumstances of the managers and agents of that society has a fundamental role in the well-being of a society. Thus, selecting the best managers and staff justifies lots of inspection and investigation, and standards should be taken into consideration for evaluating individuals and their selection.