:: Volume 8, Issue 2 (8-2013) ::
2013, 8(2): 28-38 Back to browse issues page
The Relationship Between Business Ethics and Intelligence of International Companies, In Iran
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Background: Employees’ intelligence is one of the crucial factors in staffing and job enrichment. An optimal functioning of market rules is in turn determined by the quality of the sociological environment, by its cultural and moral values. Identify the relationship between personality characteristics and ethical principle has effect on organizational effectiveness.
Methods: This research is a descriptive survey. This paper aims to explain and clarify the inter-relationships and the interaction effects among business ethics and employees’ intelligence in international companies in Iran. Research variables were identified by interview with experts and review research literature. Based on key factors and relations derived from the literature and our semi structured interviews, our Hypotheses were formulated. The survey sample population consisted of 397 randomly taken employees who work in international companies in Iran, according to a cluster random sampling skim. Data accumulated through questionnaires were run through the Cronbach alpha reliability test. The structure and content of our questionnaire were discussed with the experts in mentioned semi-structured interviews and some modifications were made to justify the validity of our measuring instrument.
Results: An important part of the results revealed business ethics relates directly with cultural intelligence (r=0.55) and emotional intelligence (r=0.63( but business ethics doesn’t relate with logical intelligence. Also, Logical intelligence does not relate with cultural and emotional intelligence.
Conclusion: Our study results indicated that although there is a positive relationship between cultural intelligence and emotional intelligence, logical intelligence does not positively relate to cultural and emotional intelligence. It means that each employee with logical intelligence does not necessarily have cultural and emotional intelligence.
 
Keywords: Cultural Intelligence, Emotional Intelligence, Logical Intelligence, Business Ethics.
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Type of Study: Research | Subject: Special
Received: 2017/09/20 | Accepted: 2017/09/20 | Published: 2017/09/20


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