University Staff’s Perceptions on Ethical Climate in Their Workplaces

Acar, Gökhan; Karabulut, Nuri; Şahin, Ahmet; Musa, Mihriay; Ozer, Muhammet

doi:10.1080/09720073.2016.11892064

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“…Firstly, our results were obtained at a single university and a single medical school, so generalizations to other institutions are not possible. Secondly, the response rate was around 50%, which was similar to those reported for other studies at universities (Acar et al 2016 ; Acharya 2005 ; Al-Omari 2013 ). We could not compare the characteristics of responders and non-responders in our study as the survey was completely anonymous and there is no available data on the demographic characteristics of the faculty at the university schools included in the study.…”

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“…However, this type of climate would be similar to the common empirical Instrumental climate, which is associated with the egoism ethical construct and either individual or local locus of analysis (Martin and Cullen 2006 ; Simha and Cullen 2012 ), and thus similar to the climate observed at the School of Medicine in our study. In the study of the staff of Usak University in Turkey (again not specifying the university schools involved), Acar et al ( 2016 ) reported the predominance of “Laws, rules and policies” ethical climate, similar to the overall result for the University of Split in our study. In the study of Acharya ( 2005 ), which involved a single dental university school in India, the reported (equally) predominant climates were those of “Consensual Morality”, “Self-Centered Morality” and “Universal Morality”.…”

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confidence: 86%

“…There is little research on ethical climate at universities and research organizations (Acar et al 2016 ; Acharya 2005 ; Al-Omari 2013 ) compared to the large body of research on ethical climate in business (Martin and Cullen 2006 ; Simha and Cullen 2012 ), and health care institutions (Koskenvuori et al 2017 ). We studied the schools of engineering, which focuses on the technical aspects of research and professionalism, and the humanities and social sciences—where reflection and introspection into ethical issues is a part of the education process, and medicine—where professional deontology and medical ethics is formally a part of the curriculum.…”

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“…These studies did not specify the university departments surveyed (Al Omari 2013; Acar et al 2016), and only the study of Acharya et al specifically surveyed professors and students in a dental school.…”

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“…Although ethical climate has been measured in a variety of professional settings, mostly business (reviewed in Simha and Cullen 2012 ) and some in healthcare settings (Atabay et al 2015 ; Abou Hashish 2017 ; Dinc and Huric 2016 ; Koskenvuori et al 2017 ), very few studies have looked at ethical climates of higher education academic/educational institutions (Acharya 2005 ; Al Omari 2013 ; Acar et al 2016 ). These studies did not specify the university departments surveyed (Al Omari 2013 ; Acar et al 2016 ), and only the study of Acharya et al specifically surveyed professors and students in a dental school.…”

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We determined the prevailing ethical climate at three different schools of a single university, in order to explore possible differences in the ethical climate related to different research fields: the School of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Naval Architecture; the School of Humanities and Social Sciences; and the School of Medicine. We used the Ethical Climate Questionnaire to survey the staff (teachers and administration) at the three schools, and used the research integrity and organizational climate (RIOC) survey for early-stage researchers at the three schools. The dominant ethical climate type perceived collectively at the three university schools (response rate 49%, n = 294) was Laws and professional codes, which is associated with the cosmopolitan level of analysis and the ethical construct of principle. Individually, the same climate predominated at the schools for engineering and humanities, but the School of Medicine had the Selfinterest ethical climate, which is associated with the individual level of analysis and the egoism ethical construct. In the RIOC survey (response rate 85%; n = 70), early-stage researchers from the three university schools did not differ in their perceptions of the organizational research integrity climate, or in their perceived individual, group or organizational pressures. Our study is the first, to the best of our knowledge, to show differences in perceived ethical climate at a medical school compared to other schools at a university. Further studies are needed to explore the reasons for these differences and how they translate to organizational outcomes, 123Sci Eng Ethics DOI 10.1007/s11948-017-9987-y such as job satisfaction, commitment to the institution and dysfunctional behaviour, including research misconduct.

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confidence: 88%