Enhancing the In-Role Behaviour and Organizational Citizenship Behaviours in the Workplace: A Multidimensional View for the Role of Ethical Climate
| Autor: | Raghda Abulsaoud Ahmed Younis, Aida Said Moawad Elsaid |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Organizational citizenship behavior
Recall media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 06 humanities and the arts 0603 philosophy ethics and religion Research findings Independence Distress 0502 economics and business Survey data collection Ethical climate 060301 applied ethics Psychology Social psychology Citizenship 050203 business & management media_common |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Business and Management. 14:1 |
| ISSN: | 1833-8119 1833-3850 |
| DOI: | 10.5539/ijbm.v14n12p1 |
| Popis: | Non-ethical behavior is considered as one of the main reasons of distress any organization could be exposed to. The existence of un-ethical climates, within an organization, may result in several negative behaviors towards this organization and its members. Although previous studies asserted the role of ethical climate in both organizational and individual levels, limited studies considered the role of ethical climate from the multidimensional view. This is besides examining its impact on both the in-role and volunteer behaviours. Moreover, the inconsistency of the previous research findings recall the need to address these relations in different industries. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of ethical climate from a multi-dimensional view, i.e. testing the five dimensions of ethical climate ( Law and code, Rules, Instrumental, Independence and Caring) in predicting both the in-role behavior and organizational citizenship behaviors (organizational citizenship behaviors towards individuals and towards organizations). Based on the cross-sectional study, a survey data from faculty members were collected and analyzed using structure equation modeling. The findings suggested that ethical climate predicts both behaviors. It, also, revealed that the Independence and Rules dimensions are the most influencing climate dimensions in developing the in-role behavior whereas Caring, rules and Instrumental are positively related to the citizenship behaviors. This study is one of the limited studies that considered the role of ethical climate - from a multidimensional view- in predicting both organizational citizenship behaviors and in-role behavior. In addition, it is one of the earliest studies in the Arab region which tackles such a relationship. |
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