Analyzing the Organizational Ethics of Employees Using the Moral Compass Model

Identifying an ethical approach which is accepted by the organization employees, not only guarantees the survival and growth of the organization, but helps managers with human resource development and improvement policies as well. Using the Moral Compass Model, the present article tried to provide an appropriate context to design the ethics charter for the university staff and to institutionalize the ethics throughout the university. The present study was a descriptive research based on survey method, by implementing stratified sampling and questionnaire to identify the employees’ organizational ethics. The findings of the present study indicated that there was a great tendency toward utilitarianism among the university employees, while gender, education level, age as well as tenure showed to have no significant influence on the employees’ tendency. Taking into account the employees’ tendency toward the utilitarianism, the managers of the university should take appropriate actions such as drawing an appropriate ethics charter, a proper rewarding system, and etc.