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The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of ethical leadership on job thirst with the mediating role of innovative organizational climate of faculty members in open universities of Tehran. According to the applied method, the method of data collection was descriptive-correlational and also in terms of data type was quantitative. The statistical population consisted of all faculty members of Tehran's open universities in 1900. Using a Morgan table and a multi-stage cluster random sampling method, 320 subjects were selected as sample size. To collect data, three standard questionnaires of ethical leadership (Brown et al., 2005), Shifley et al. (2001) and the Innovative chemistry of Siegel and Kimmer (1978) were used. After collecting the questionnaires, the data were analyzed by means of mean, standard deviation, percentage, frequency and tables using Spss-V22 software and statistical inference of the data through structural equation modeling with Lisrel software. -V8.8 In two sections, the measurement model and the structural part were performed. In the first part, technical characteristics of the questionnaire including reliability, convergent validity and divergent validity were investigated. In the second section, path coefficients and significant coefficients were used to study the research hypotheses. The results showed that due to the role of organizational climate mediator, ethical leadership and its components have a positive and significant effect on the job enthusiasm of the faculty members of Tehran's open universities. Ethical leadership has an impact on job thirst; ethical leadership has an impact on the innovative organizational climate; job hobby influences innovative organizational climate.
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