The Effect of Moral Atmosphere on Teachers' Job Engagement

In today's world, human resources are considered the best competitive advantage of any organization, and people have become more significant in the organization theory than ever before. The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of moral atmosphere on teachers' job engagement. The research method in this study is descriptive and applied, and the population under study was 450 senior high school teachers of District One of Khorramabad in the academic year 2015-2016, and 210 of them were selected using available sampling method and based on Morgan's Table. The data collection tool included Victor and Cullen's Moral Atmosphere questionnaire (1987) with 26 questions and Shaufli et al.'s (2003) Engagement Questionnaire with 17 questions with a five-point Likert scale. The reliability coefficient of moral atmosphere and engagement questionnaires have been obtained as 0.841 and 0.846, respectively. In this research, structural equation modeling with the help of PLS ​​software was used to examine the hypotheses and test the model. The findings of the research showed that the moral atmosphere of the organization (tools, attention, independence, organizational rules and regulations, professional moral rules and regulations) has an effect on teachers' job engagement. According to the findings of the research, managers can influence the behavior of staff in the organization by managing the moral atmosphere of schools and boosting teachers' professional engagement