Establishing Organizational Ethical Climates: How Do Managerial Practices Work?

Parboteeah, K. Praveen; Chen, Hsien Chun; Lin, Ying‐Tzu; Chen, I‐Heng; Lee, Amber Y.P; Chung, Anyi

doi:10.1007/s10551-010-0527-9

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“…This study was one of the few to investigate the three dimensions of organizational sustainability performance. Previous studies examining sustainability performance primarily focused on the social and financial aspects of sustainability [7]. Because sustainability has begun to encompass the triple bottom lines-social, financial, and environmental-this study therefore included environmental performance to measure a more complete framework for the sustainability performance of organizations.…”

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confidence: 99%

Ethical Climate and Job Attitude in Fashion Retail Employees’ Turnover Intention, and Perceived Organizational Sustainability Performance: A Cross-Sectional Study

Lee

Ha‐Brookshire

2017

Sustainability

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Abstract:The relationship between the fashion retail industry's working environment and the high rate of employee turnover has been highlighted as one of the key concerns for negative organizational performance in both the short and long term. This relationship creates a need to investigate the ethical climate within fashion retail businesses, employees' attitudes toward their jobs, and employees' turnover intention, as these factors can influence organizations' performance including their likelihood of achieving the triple bottom lines of sustainability. Based on social exchange and human and social capital theories, this study investigated how employees' ethical climate and turnover intention are affected by both individual-and organizational-level factors, and their impact on the triple bottom lines of organizational sustainability performance. This study empirically tested a structural model based on the survey responses from 278 U.S. fashion retail employees. The findings show that an ethical climate can enhance employees' job attitude as well as all three dimensions of organizational sustainability performance-financial, social, and environmental. Creating an ethical climate in an organization can decrease employees' turnover intention, but also employees' attitudes towards their jobs lowers their turnover intention. The study's findings reveal that not only can employees' attitudes toward their jobs impact organizational sustainability performance, but creating an ethical working environment is another important way to improve organizational sustainability performance.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ethical Climate and Job Attitude in Fashion Retail Employees’ Turnover Intention, and Perceived Organizational Sustainability Performance: A Cross-Sectional Study

Lee

Ha‐Brookshire

2017

Sustainability

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“…Stevens (2008) indicated that organizational communication enhances the effectiveness of organizational codes and rules. While Parboteeah, Chen, Lee and Chung (2010) found communication is positively associated with principled-local climates and provided further evidence that principled-local ethical climates can be developed and enhanced by communication. Ethical cultures can be built if managers consider the importance of their communication in terms of transmitting and embedding an organization's assumptions and values in its employees' daily operations (Schein, 2004).…”

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“…Through empowerment, managers can bolster employees' sense of personal responsibility for individual decisions, thus discouraging the development of egoistic-local climates and consequently reducing the incidence of ethical crises. Managers could employ empowerment practices to motivate a sense of reciprocation in their subordinates, which in turn, will elicit a benevolent-local climate in the workplace (Parboteeah, Lin, Chen, Lee, & Chung, 2010). Empowerment also signals to employees that their judgments and decisions are trusted by both the organization and their supervisors (Butts, Vandenberg, Dejoy, Schaffer, & Wilson, 2009).…”

Section: Empowerment/engagementmentioning

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An Increasing Usefulness for Managerial Communication Research on the Main Topics of Management

Bell

Roebuck

2015

SSRN Journal

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Effective communication is necessary across all management tiers and functions. In addition, it is an integral part of managerial decision-making. Over the last 10 years, interest in the nuances of communication as related to management has intensified. These studies have fostered diverse approaches to linking management and communication. Our investigation, using 2x5 and 2x4 factorial ANOVAs, reveals that differences exist among the means of five professional communication fields. Numerous articles published between 2004 and 2013 were examined, and we found an increasing usefulness for managerial communication research on the main topic of management.

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“…They approached it from a moral philosophy, moral psychology and sociological perspective (Parboteeah et al, 2010). For the purpose of this article it is suggested that their definition be used as the overall definition of ethical climate.…”

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An adapted measure of ethical climate in organisations – a South African study

Grobler

2017

AJOBE

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A study was conducted to analyse the ethical climate typology of the Ethical Climate Questionnaire empirically, in order to develop a unique South African typology. This typology was tested for the equivalence of the construct between the private and public sector. A three ethical climate type solution was found (in contrast with the initial nine, and later five type typology). The results suggest that the construct is equivalent for both the private and public sectors. The findings could therefore be used as a foundation for future studies, as well as for ethical climate measurement within the South African context.

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Establishing Organizational Ethical Climates: How Do Managerial Practices Work?

Abstract: communication, empowerment, organizational ethical climate,

Cited by 74 publications

References 54 publications

Ethical Climate and Job Attitude in Fashion Retail Employees’ Turnover Intention, and Perceived Organizational Sustainability Performance: A Cross-Sectional Study

Ethical Climate and Job Attitude in Fashion Retail Employees’ Turnover Intention, and Perceived Organizational Sustainability Performance: A Cross-Sectional Study

An Increasing Usefulness for Managerial Communication Research on the Main Topics of Management

An adapted measure of ethical climate in organisations – a South African study

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