SURVEYING THE ROLE OF ETHICAL CLIMATE ON JOB SATISFACTION IN IRAN’S SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES

Abstract

The Purpose of this study is Surveying Ethical Climate on Job satisfaction in Iran’s SMEs. Theoretical framework of this study is Victor and Cullen’s (1988) Ethical Climate theory, and Paul E. Spector (1997) job satisfaction Survey. Data has collected from 128 managers of SMEs in East Azerbaijan Province of Iran by two standard questionnaires of study variables. Ethical Climate Questionnaire, a 26 item scale by Victor & Cullen (1988) and Job satisfaction Questionnaire, a 36 item scale Paul E. Spector, both the reliability and validity of measures has examined. Descriptive statistics has calculated for the study constructs. T-test and Pearson correlation coefficients have performed to compare means of the constructs between variables and Pearson correlation coefficients. Findings show that there is a relationship between ethical climate and Job satisfaction in Iran’s SMEs.