A Study on the Relationship between Ethical Climate Perception and Innovative Work Behavior in Health Workers

Abstract

This study aims to reveal the relationship between ethical climate perception and the innovative work behaviors of health workers. Besides, the effects of ethical climate perception sub-dimensions on innovative work behavior were tried to be introduced in the study. In order to realize the objectives determined in the study, field research was conducted in a public hospital in Ankara. 280 public health workers participated in the study. The data obtained from the research were subjected to descriptive statistics analysis, correlation analysis, and multiple linear regression analysis. According to the results of the analysis, it is determined that there is a 21% statistically significant and positive relationship between the ethical climate perception and innovative working behavior levels of healthcare workers. Among the ethical climate perception sub-dimensions, benevolence and independence dimensions were found to be positively related to innovative work behavior. A 10 percent deviation in the innovative work behaviors of health workers is explained by ethical climate perception sub-dimensions. It was concluded that "benevolence" and "independence", the ethical climate sub-dimensions, affected the innovative working behavior by 17% and 23%, respectively. On the other hand, "laws, and codes", "rules", and "instrumental" dimensions were not found to have a statistically significant effect.

Relation between innovative work behavior and ethical climate perceptions among nursing personnel

“…These results were consistent with [ 19 ] who indicated that there was a positive and significant correlation between the health workers, levels of innovative work behavior and independence that can lead to efficiency. In the same line [ 28 ], reported that providing nurses with conductive work environment where they can reach their fullest potential is very important to enhance their innovation.…”

“…Regarding the dimensions of ethical climate perception, the present study indicates that the lowest score was related to laws, professional codes dimension; this may be due to the mangers, focus on performance and the heavy workload which prevent nurses from assuring their interest to laws and professional codes. On the contrast, these results not matched with [ 19 ] who confirmed that law and professional codes dimension was the highest average. In the same line, these results were inconsistent with [ 32 ] who studied nurses, perceptions about ethical climate in Midwives in obstetrics and pediatrics hospital in Turkey and showed that the independence climate was the lowest score.…”

“…All new candidates of nursing profession could have a great interest in innovation when the opportunities for innovation arise [ 26 ]. A high ethical climate perception allows nursing staff to adjust their behavior to follow moral guidelines for the growth of themselves, their colleagues, and their institution [ 19 ].…”

“…According to Victor and Cullen [ 18 ], the ethical climate is defined as” All activities, rules and norms inside the organization that are within ethical substance” [ 19 ]. In healthcare, ethical climate can be defined as “All values either explicit or Implicit that guide the delivery of healthcare and form the place of work within which the care provided” [ 20 ].…”

Work Ethics’ Impact on Counterproductive Work Behaviour in Institutes of Higher Education

“…Within the context of their moral convictions, employees can guide their behaviour in the independence component. Furthermore, personnel base their decisions primarily on their own beliefs, giving precedence to their moral convictions above external forces when making ethical climate decisions (Tokmak, 2020). Previously, in measuring work ethics, independence also has been used as one of the measurements and the result shows high reliability of the independence subscale with having Cronbach alpha of 0.87 (Gwamanda & Mahembe, 2023).…”