Examining the work ethic with an emphasis on organizational factor.

Work ethic is a cultural norm which gives positive moral values doing goodwork in the community. The purpose of this article is to review and understandthe work ethic and organizational factors that influence it. This researchemploys survey method and uses questionnaires. The selected target societyhas been employees of state universities in Tabriz with a sample of 274 people.After extracting and analyzing data and producing of statistic indexes(indicators) for independent and cumulated variables of the research, the resultshow that the least and the most work ethics of the sample people are 2.9 and 5respectively. The degree of work ethics of studied employees is 4.21. Also, thework ethics of 4.4 percent of the population is in low level, 52.1 percent inintermediate level and 36.5 percent in high level.Eventually 22.7% of respondents have considered the organizationmanagement style as autocratic, 53.6% as moderate and 23.7% as participatory.In this way the popular management style in university has been assessed asmoderate. In this research there is a positive and meaningful correlationbetween the work ethics and job satisfaction justice (fairness) andorganizational commitment and also a negative and meaningful correlationbetween work ethics and organization alienation and autocratic managementstyle.