The Mediating Role of Professional Ethics in the Relationship Between Career Resilience, Emotional Schemas, and Organizational Performance in Bank Employees
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Objective: This study investigates the mediating role of professional ethics in explaining the relationships between career resilience, emotional schemas, and organizational performance in bank employees.
Methods and Materials: A descriptive-correlational research design with structural equation modeling was employed. The study's population consisted of 430 employees from bank branches in Western Tehran in 2023, selected through convenience sampling. Data were collected using Ander de Waal et al.'s organizational performance questionnaires (2017), Morgan Lyon's career path resilience (2001), Leahy's emotional schemas (2002) and Kaduzier's professional ethics (2002). Data analyzed by Pearson correlation coefficient and structural equation modeling by SPSS.26 and AMOS.26.
Findings: Structural equation modeling analysis revealed that professional ethics negatively mediates the relationship between emotional schemas and organizational performance, while positively mediating the relationship between career resilience and organizational performance. The total variance explained (R²) for organizational performance was 0.55, indicating that emotional schemas, career resilience, and professional ethics together account for 55% of the variance in organizational performance.
Conclusion: The findings underscore the critical role of professional ethics in influencing organizational performance. Professional ethics serves as both a negative mediator between emotional schemas and organizational performance and a positive mediator between career resilience and organizational performance. These results suggest that promoting professional ethics can enhance organizational performance by improving employees' emotional resilience and better handling emotional challenges in the workplace.
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