فهرست مطالب جواد یغما

Considering the strategic role of ethics in organizational success and profitability, and the importance of compliance with ethical principles by managers, the purpose of this research is to explain the behavioral components of the moral vice of greed in managers.              

The present research method is a combined (qualitative and quantitative) method. The studied population, in both departments, are senior managers (high and middle level) and operational managers working in the headquarters of Mashhad Municipality. In the qualitative part, the study sample is 16 people from the qualitative treasury, which was obtained by a targeted non-random method. The data collection tool was interviews, and the modified descriptive phenomenology method was used to analyze the interviews. In the quantitative part, the study sample is 122 people from the statistical population of 174 people who were obtained by stratified sampling method. The data collection tool was a questionnaire, and confirmatory factor analysis was used for its analysis.

In the qualitative part, the results showed that the greed-based behavior of managers includes 7 components of political behavior, ignoring ethics, self-interested behavior, materialistic behavior, tendency to power-seeking behavior, lack of foresight, and behavioral confusion. In the quantitative part, the results showed that the validity of the questionnaire is confirmed based on convergent validity (structural coherence of the instrument), differential validity (non-overlapping between questionnaire constructs) and optimality of selected components. The reliability of the questionnaire was also confirmed.

In this research, the behavioral components of the moral vice of greed in managers were explained. Acquainting the managers of the organization with these components helps the organizations to provide the necessary ground to reduce their greed by changing the managers' attitude.