The effect of ethical reasoning on general decision-making styles of managers mediated by professional ethics

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• davood toosi ¹
• fatemeh mazaheripoor ²
• reza mohammadzadeh ¹
• ali khaleghkhah ³

¹ PhD Student in Educational Management, Mohaghegh Ardabili University

² Master of Education Management, Gorgan Azad University

³ Associate Professor of Philosophy of Education, Mohaghegh Ardabili University

10.30495/jedu.2023.27762.5560

Abstract

Introduction: decision-making is one of the inseparable components of management and it is manifested in all components of management. Also, moral issues have been raised as the most basic human concern. The purpose of this research is the effect of moral reasoning in predicting the level of managers' general decision-making style; It is through the mediation of professional ethics.
research methodology: his research was conducted with descriptive-correlation method and structural equation modeling method (SEM). The statistical population of the research consisted of all school principals in Urmia city, and 137 of them were selected using random sampling method. The research tools included the professional ethics questionnaire of Kaduzir (2000), the moral reasoning questionnaire of Manavipur (2013) and the general decision-making styles questionnaire of Scott and Bruce (1995).
Findings: The resulting data were analyzed using structural equation method and using Spss version 26 and Smart-PLS software. The results of the research showed that moral reasoning directly has a positive and significant effect on the general style of decision-making. Also, the direct effect of professional ethics on the general style of decision-making and moral reasoning on professional ethics was statistically significant. In addition, professional ethics was able to enter the model as a mediating role in the relationship between moral reasoning and general decision-making style. Finally, the structural model of the research after modification had a good fit with the experimental data of the research.
Conclusion: According to the obtained results, it can be stated that in order to improve different decision-making styles, managers should have higher moral integrity and better professional ethics.

Keywords

• Moral reasoning
• professional ethics
• general styles of decision making

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