Predicting the Employees’ Job Satisfaction based on Ethical Behaviors’ Managers in Kermanshah Office of Sports and Youth Affairs

Document Type : Research Paper

Abstract

Background & Purpose: Today, organizations efforts to develop their human resources which the one of these aspects achieve by empowerment of employees’ job satisfaction. Thus, the aim of present study was to predict the employees job satisfaction based on ethical behaviors’ managers in Kermanshah office of sports and youth affairs.
Methodology: 141 people (123 = employees; 18 = managers) have equality by statistical society responded to job satisfaction (Visouki and Chrome, 1991) and ethical behavior questionnaires (Beheshtifar and Nehoee Moghadam, 1389). Context validity of questionnaires confirmed by sport scholars and professors, and their reliability contained .96 and .88 by Cronbach alpha coefficient.
Results: Pearson correlation coefficient results showed that there are significant, strong and positive relations between ethical behaviors and job satisfaction (r= .69; p= .01). Regression analysis results have showed that the best predictors of employee’s job satisfaction were components of fair behavior (R= .504) and honest rate (R= .491) in managers (R2= .54).
Discussion: For better running the ethical behaviors are that managers must be respect themselves and show them in their behaviors. If there are ethics in organization (such as fair behaviors, honest, and kindness rates), we will be able to expect that create the job satisfaction and thereby organizational successful in field of sport management.

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