Designing an Effective Pattern of Virtuous Organizations

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to design an effective model of virtuous organizations with emphasis on the ، Cooperative Development Bank and using the integrated method (exploratory) in four stages: At first, the documents, platforms and indices of virtuous organizations were extracted, then the Delphi method (41) was used for final compilation of the indices. Factor analysis has been used to identify the components and finally the extraction model has been validated by structural equation modeling. The statistical population in qualitative and quantitative part of research consisted of experts, faculty members and staff and experts of Isfahan Cooperative Development Bank and five cities of Isfahan province (160) that were evaluated using survey technique. Finally, the model of virtuous organizations in Co-operative Development Bank was extracted in the form of 10 components of participatory leadership, core team, managers' commitment and support, structural support, organizational strategies, organizational communication, upstream documents, environmental dynamics and technological infrastructure and 67 indicators and the data collected had a good fit in the model of virtuous organizations.

Keywords

• virtue
• virtualism
• virtue organizations
• iran cooperative development bank