Seyed Hadi Mousavi Nejad; Hojjat Vahdati; Mohammad Hakkak
Volume 20, Issue 4 , January 2017, , Pages 117-146
Abstract
Given the importance of ethics in business success, management students need to understand ethics and moral judgment to deal with ethical issues and they should become familiar with individual and organizational factors affecting it. Among these factors, ethical climate and ethical ideology can affect ...
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Given the importance of ethics in business success, management students need to understand ethics and moral judgment to deal with ethical issues and they should become familiar with individual and organizational factors affecting it. Among these factors, ethical climate and ethical ideology can affect moral judgment and cause it to chang. In fact, organization ethic principles are the cornerstone for people’s lifestyle that affects their moral judgment in challenging situations. These effects can be different according to ethical ideology. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the effect of ethical climate on moral judgment and investigates the mediating role of moral ideology (idealism and relativism). Research sample was 309 business students in Lorestan University. Data collected using questionnaires and scenario were analyzed using structural equation modeling technique. Results show that the ethical climate both directly and indirectly through idealism positively affects the moral judgment, but this effect was not moderated by relativism. In addition, ethical climate has a positive effect on idealism and negative effect on relativism. Likewise, Idealism and relativism have a positive and negative effect on moral judgments respectively. This study focuses on the different role of ethical ideology in moral judgments especially among management students as its innovation aspect which has not been considered by researchers, and can have a major contribution in the field of management.
Hojat Vahdati; Seyyed Hamid Khodadad Hosseini; Mohammad Ehsani; Asghar Moshabbeki Esfahani
Volume 17, Issue 4 , January 2014, , Pages 203-223
Abstract
Football is an industry that Branding and its foundation, brand identity, it has extremely important in. so that researchers have proposed specific brand models in countries with football. In this research, using descriptive analytic methods and with the purpose of application, data was collected in ...
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Football is an industry that Branding and its foundation, brand identity, it has extremely important in. so that researchers have proposed specific brand models in countries with football. In this research, using descriptive analytic methods and with the purpose of application, data was collected in two qualitative and quantitative phases. The statistical population consists of 10 professionals and experts in related to research and Spectators of six teams in the Premier League that would be present in the stadium. Sample size was 300 cases in Phase I and 720 in Phase II. which using simple random sampling method and equally, the fans selected. Accordingly, researchers found need of new theoretical insights based on brand identity(Koo(2009), Schilhaneck(2008), Zucchermaglio(2011), Silveira(2011)&Richelieu(2010), and considering the brand identity models, in few countries with football brand (Germany, Spain, France and S.Korea), and with the use of experts and fans perspectives, the brand identity model of teams in the league in season 92/91 offer and Finally using CFA and SEM model provided a new perspective on the dimensions of the country football brand identity, that are on the basis of factor loading as following: Success(./97), Delivery(/.92), Native Region(/.89), Star Player(/.88), Logo, Fans, History, Traditional Rival(./87), Tradition(./85), Team performance (./82), Stadium(./72) and Non -Player personnel (./51).
