An Analysis of GLOBE’s Organization Culture on Work Ethics: A Case Study of Iran

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to express the importance of ethics in business and also the expression of organizational culture dimensions (GLOBE) and the power of organizational culture in institutionalizing ethics in business as an efficient competitive advantage. This study seeks to find a relationship between organizational culture dimensions and implementation of business ethics and also the most important organizational culture dimension in improving ethics in business.
The research methodology is descriptive based on data collection method. For this purpose, the correlation method was used to describe the research variables and explain relationships. The research questionnaire was done in the temporal domain until winter 2014 in the spatial domain of Social Security Organization of Golpayegan (as the mother organization, Khansar and Daran, all of which located in Isfahan Province.
The Study reveals that the significance probability value of each regression independent variable shows that only variables “Power Distance, Gender Egalitarianism, Future Orientation, and Human Orientation”, due to P-value Considering the results of the research, it’s suggested that a senior manager intending to revive the business ethics in his organization by means of the powerful leverage of organizational culture, should invest on power distance, gender equality, foresight and altruism more.
Key words: Business ethics; Organizational culture; GLOBE; Nobel Quran