Background: Cultural intelligence is effective on professional ethics in the workplace. Therefore, the aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between cultural intelligence and professional ethics in the workplace.
Method: Correlation study and statistical society includes 715 employees of a governmental organization, 250 of them were randomly selected as relative sample. In this research, the standard questionnaire of cultural intelligence and professional ethics researcher questionnaire were used. Data were analyzed using Pearson correlation coefficient and multiple regression analysis.
Results: The results showed a significant relationship between cultural intelligence and professional ethics (p <0.01) and the dimensions of cultural intelligence (28.7%) of the variance of professional ethics.
Conclusion: It is possible to predict the dimensions of the cultural intelligence through professional ethics.