Prioritizing Effective Factors in the Making Ethical Organizations by Using Combined Method of Interpretative Structural Modeling (ISM) and Principal Component Analysis (PCA)

Nowadays Organizations consider ethical principles in the business environment as an advantage and seek to strengthen it. This requires a coherent, interactive and cognitive understanding of the parts of internal and external environment of organization, which leads to the realization of the rights of the beneficiaries of the organization. The purpose of this paper is prioritize  the factors involved in the making of ethics in organizations in form of hierarchical model based on Interpretative Structural Modeling (ISM) and Principal Component Analysis (PCA). For this purpose, 88 experts and professors of the university based on survey method as a statistical society were questioned about relevant factors in the form of a questionnaire. With the analysis, it was found that the most important factors in the ethical organization are culture of organization, the organization's environment and the way employees perceive that these are strengthened by the style of managers and ethical infrastructures. Utilizing the proposed method, it leads to the reverse thinking, so can be explicitly attributed the present situation to its partial factors.