The relationship between professional ethics and self-efficacy and job performance of elementary teachers

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Master student of Chabahar International University

2 Professor of Chabahar International University

Abstract

Professional ethics in the work environment is the key to prevent most of the job problems, and for this reason, all organizations and institutions of a society seek to achieve it. Observance of professional ethics in the job of a teacher is much more necessary because it deals with training the future human resources of a country. The present study was conducted with the aim of investigating the relationship between professional ethics and self-efficacy and job performance in elementary school teachers in Fanuj city. The research method is descriptive-correlation. The statistical population of this research was 152 elementary school teachers, who were studied by simple random sampling of 105 people through three questionnaires of professional ethics (Gregory, 1990), self-efficacy of Scherer et al. (1975) and job performance (Patterson, 1970). Data analysis was done using Pearson correlation coefficient and t test. The findings showed that the correlation coefficients of professional ethics and its components: attachment and interest in work, perseverance and seriousness in work, healthy and human relations and collective spirit and participation in work with job performance and self-efficacy are equal to 0.305, 288/0, respectively. 0, 0.238, 0.289 (p<0.01). The value of correlation coefficients of professional ethics and its components: attachment and interest in work, perseverance and seriousness in work, healthy and human relations and collective spirit and participation in work with self-efficacy equal to 0.288, 0.306, 0.411 and 353 respectively. / was (p<0/01) and the results of the t-test showed that there is no significant difference between the dimensions of professional ethics, self-efficacy and job performance of male and female teachers (p<0/01).

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