The study of work ethic and its relationship with selected demographic characteristics in the faculties and employees of Islamic Azad Universities was aims of this article. The research methodology was descriptive-correlational and the data was collected via field procedure. The population of the study consisted of all the faculties and employees of Islamic Azad Universities (N=60000). The participants of the study were 800 faculties and employees who were selected from among the population based on cluster random sampling. The sample size was determined using Morgan table. 569 posted questionnaires were completed and returned by the participants. To assess work ethic a summarized version of Ali's questionnaire (1998) was used. In order to assure the validity of the questionnaire, it was submitted to some faculties in the department of Theology and Islamic Thoughts as well as some other experts. Subsequently, the experts' opinions regarding all the questionnaire items were applied in moderating the scales. The reliability of the scales in a sample group using Cronbach's alpha coefficient was calculated to be 0.83 and using test-retest method to be 0.76. Both descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the data. The results showed that, out of the maximum mean score of 5 for work ethic, the participants' mean score was 4.09 with the standard deviation of 0.48. The results of hypothesis tests revealed a meaningful different between work ethic in the faculties and employees and between work ethic in the number of jobs have participants and show a meaningful correlation between work ethic whit age and income of participants.
