One of the problems that employees face today in organizations is ethical problems. Many organizations resort to unethical acts due to the intensified competition in achieving efficiency and profitability. This article has been conducted to examine the relationship between the ethical climate and positive organizational behavior at Shahrud University of Medical Sciences. To do this, 224 employees at Shahrud University of Medical Sciences were selected randomly. The research was done based on a survey. The examined questionnaires included standardized questionnaires of ethical climate and positive organizational behavior. SPSS-19 was used to analyze the data in this study. The reliability of the questionnaires was estimated using Cronbach's alpha. Thus, Cronbach's alpha was obtained 0.844 and 0.730 respectively for the ethical climate of the organization and positive organizational behaviors. The results showed that there is a positive and significant relationship between the ethical climate of the organization and positive organizational behaviors of the staff at Shahrud University of Medical Sciences.Additionally, there are significant relationships among the instrumental ethical climate and the ethical climates of independence, caring, organizational rules and regulations, professional ethical rules and regulations and positive organizational behaviors among the staff at Shahrud University of Medical Sciences.
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