Investigation of the Relationship between Ethical Climate and Job Involvement among the Nurses Working in Educational Hospitals of Sari in 2016

The staff who have safe work environment, do their best to make their work environment better and more efficient. These staff act more successful and most probably have high job involvement. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between ethical climate and job involvement among the nurses working in educational hospitals of Sari.

This study is a descriptive-analytical one which was conducted on 151 nurses of educational hospitals of Sari in 2016. For data collection a three-part questionnaire was used, the first part of which was related to demographic features. The second part was a Kanungu standard job involvement questionnaire while the third part was related to the Olson's ethical climate questionnaire. Finally the collected data were analyzed by SPSS19 software using t-test statistical tests and variance analysis.

The participants of this study were the nurses working in educational hospitals of Sari whose average age was 31.56 ± 5.63, 91 individuals were female and 96 of them were passed the ethics courses. The relationship between the gender and ethical climate was not significant while its relationship with job involvement was significant. Also the relationship of age and ethics course passing was not significant with ethical climate and job involvement. The ethical climate mean score was 93.72 ± 13.41 while job involvement's was 29.51 ± 6.35 and their relationship was significant.

The results indicated that although the staff had a good perception of ethical climate but they had low job involvement and the relationship between ethical climate and job involvement was significant.