International Journal of Ethics and Society

en Designing and Assessing the Model of Developing Employees' Moral Courage تخصصي Special Original Article <div style="text-align: justify;">Background: Employees in organizations are considered as the main driving force, so any action to identify their capabilities and develop those capabilities can help the organization achieve its goals. Due to some inconveniences in organizations, they need employees who, despite many threats and employees under various pressures, employees still maintain their moral courage when making decisions. This research has been conducted with the aim of designing and evaluating the development model of employees' moral courage in the railways of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Method: The present study is an applied type and has been done by mixed method. In the qualitative part of the statistical population including rail experts, a sample of 20 railway experts has been selected using snowball sampling method which is interpretive structural modeling of courage development model Employee ethics is explained. In a small part of the statistical population of railway employees, a sample of 220 people is made available by available sampling method using a questionnaire and is evaluated by structural equation method using PLS3 and SPSS21 software. Results: In this study, the findings show that personal, environmental, occupational, managerial and organizational dimensions are effective in developing the moral courage of employees. The environmental dimension plays an important role as an independent variable and the other dimensions play an important role as mediating variables. Conclusion: In this study, a model is presented to develop the moral courage of employees. The model is evaluated and all its relationships are approved.</div> Ethical courage, Model assessment, Managerial dimension, Organizational dimension, Courage development 75 83 http://ijethics.com/browse.php?a_code=A-10-136-2&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Noorallah Paknejad paknejad60@gmail.com 10031947532846002310 10031947532846002310 No Dept. of Public Management, Shushtar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shushtar, Iran Vahid Chenari vchenari@gmail.com 10031947532846002311 10031947532846002311 Yes Dept. of Public Management, Shushtar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shushtar, Iran Seyed Rasoul Agha Davood Rasool_Aghadavood@yahoo.com 10031947532846002312 10031947532846002312 No Dept. of Public Management, Dehaghan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Dehaghan, Iran. Sayed Ali Akbar Ahmadi a.ahmadi4867@gmail.com 10031947532846002313 10031947532846002313 No Dept. of Public Management, Tehran Branch, Payame Noor University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran