Factors affecting ethical perceptions and attitudes of managers

Ethics as a regulator of human relations always has a significant importance. In order to achieve ethical behavior criteria, and dominant of ethical principles in employeesʹ behaviors, effective factors on employeesʹ ethical behaviors, specifically managers in organizations, should be identified. In this study, impact of demographic variables (such as age, gender, and education) and presence of code of ethics in organization, on ethical perceptions and attitudes of industrial development and renovation organization of Iran (IDRO ) and its affiliated companies were examined. In this study, 16 hypotheses were developed. Studied community was managers of staff organization of industrial development and renovation organization of Iran and its affiliated companies in number of 200. A sample in number of 90 were randomly chosen. Research method was descriptive in type of correlation method. In order to collect data, a questionnaire consisting of 58 questions in 4 parts was used. For analyzing research data in descriptive and inference statistical level, Statistical Package of Social Science (SPSS) and Smart Partial Least Square (SmartPLS) software were operated. Research findings identified that: age of managers had significant impact on their evaluation of ethicalness of employeesʹ behaviors; gender of managers had significant impact on their evaluation of employeesʹ possibility of acting unethically; gender of managers had significant impact on their evaluation of factors leading to unethical behaviors; education level of managers had significant impact on their evaluation of factors leading to unethical behaviors.