Document Type : Original Article
Authors
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PhD in Public Administration, Organizational Behavior, University of Tehran, Iran
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Professor, Department of Government Management and Public Affairs, Faculty of Management and Accounting, Farabi Campus, University of Tehran, Qom, Iran.
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Master of Public Administration, Human Resources, Islamic Azad University of Larestan, Iran
10.22080/shrm.2024.5227
Abstract
Ethics is an integral part of the culture of public organizations, and designing an ethical organization requires a systematic analysis of all aspects of the organization's culture and aligning them in a way that supports ethical behavior and prevents unethical behavior. From this point of view, the aim of the upcoming article is to explain the framework of ethical culture in public organizations with a Meta-synthesis. In this research, in order to achieve the goal of the research, the qualitative research method is used and it is placed in the category of developmental studies in terms of the goal. The research community consisted of published articles published in the scientific journals of the world, which were selected after screening 41 articles. Therefore, in the first step, by using the Meta-synthesis, the components of the ethical culture framework including the antecedents, consequences and threats of the ethical culture were extracted, and in the second step, the theme analysis technique was used to categorize the data and more accurately identify the effective components. Is. The findings of this article have led to the identification of 25 antecedent components, 17 consequences and 8 threats to ethical culture in public organizations. The results of the research indicate that in order to effectively establish an ethical culture in public organizations, short-term goals should be pursued and realized through the long-term goals of the organization (improving ethical culture).
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