Assessment of the Status of Professional Ethics in Some Districts of Isfahan from the Views of City Managers

City managers need a practical and ethical framework to guide and control both their behavior and the value system of urban management in their dealing with the complex and pervasive ethical problems in urban planning. Following a combined method and basic-applied approach, this study is aimed at the assessment of the status of professional ethics in Isfahan from the views of city managers. To achieve of the goals of this research, interviews were conducted with the city managers through purposeful sampling method in the qualitative phase. In the quantitative phase, questionnaires were presented to all city managers of the municipality of Isfahan and the associated organizations by the counting method. The results were analyzed through content analysis, one-sample t-test, and Friedman test. The analysis of the data led to a model of professional ethics of urban managers containing five criteria including conditions and effective factors, norms and values, understanding ethical issues, reaching to ethical solutions and trying for ethical conduct. All criteria of professional ethics in city management in Isfahan are at an average level from the viewpoints of city managers. The average status of professional ethics in districts 1, 3 and 5 of Isfahan Municipality was at a high level according to city managers. Understanding ethical issues was more important for of city managers.