Banker Professional Ethics Violation in Banking Business

Designing a Model of Professional Ethical Ideals Based on the Dimensions of Organizational Structure and Managers' Thinking Styles in Islamic Banking at the Agricultural Bank of Iran

“…In this research, three ideals of organizational professional ethics, namely presenting a process of change and behavior correction, self-discipline and personal development, and promoting ethics and solving ethical conflicts, were validated, and six ideals including productivity of human resources, meeting the needs of various societal strata, environmental protection, safeguarding stakeholders' rights, realizing the goals of the Islamic government, and establishing justice were replaced with the ideals identified in the model. Bernard Gert (2004) in his book "Professional Ethical Ideals" generally mentions five principles including preventing harm, alleviating suffering, eliminating ethical role divisions, encouraging adherence to ethical roles, and encouraging adherence to ethical ideals, where the first two principles, namely preventing harm and alleviating suffering, are adaptable with the ideals obtained in the model (Nurhayati & Khairas, 2020;Rahmdel et al, 2019). All dimensions of organizational structure (complexity, formality, centralization) have a positive and significant relationship with professional ethical ideals, which indicates that organizations should pay special attention to the dimensions of their organizational structure to move towards becoming ethical organizations.…”

“…This issue has created a challenge for researchers to find suitable theoretical foundations and propose solutions for ethical enhancement. Effective managers at various levels are also concerned about this issue and are looking for ways to create a suitable environment for their employees so that they act with commitment and responsibility towards society and their profession, observing their occupational ethical principles (Mohammadpour et al, 2017;Nurhayati & Khairas, 2020;Rahmdel et al, 2019).…”