Title: Investigating the relationship between organisational culture factors and organisational ethics factors: a research study in a hospital

Authors: Zeinab Babaeinesami; Abdollah Babaeinesami

Addresses: Department of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran ' Department of Industrial Engineering, Islamic Azad University, South Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran

Abstract: The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between organisational culture and organisational ethics in Rouhani Hospital. This topic has been very little explored. The statistical population of this study is the personnel of the Rouhani Hospital, numbering 190 people, 127 of which were selected by random sampling based on the method of Krejcie and Morgan (1970). The data were collected using Robbins (1991) organisational culture questionnaire and Hunt et al. 's (1989) organisational ethics questionnaire. SPSS software was used to analyse the research data. The inferential test used in the present study includes: the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test and Pearson correlation coefficient to investigate the relationship. The results of the analysis of the findings showed that there is a significant relationship between organisational culture elements and organisational ethics. Among the elements of organisational culture, creativity and innovation of the Rouhani Hospital we had the most significant relationship with organisational ethics at the significant level of 0.05.

Keywords: culture; organisational culture; ethics; organisational ethics; Rouhani Hospital.

DOI: 10.1504/EMJM.2024.140143

EuroMed Journal of Management, 2024 Vol.6 No.2, pp.101 - 127

Received: 23 Aug 2023
Accepted: 10 Sep 2023
Published online: 25 Jul 2024 *

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