مرکز منطقه ای اطلاع رساني علوم و فناوري - THE EFFECTS OF ETHICAL CLIMATE AND ETHICAL LEADERSHIP ON ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY

Abstract :

The aim of this research is to investigate the relationship of ethical leadership and ethical climate perceptions of blue and white collar workers in a company which is operating in the automotive industry with organizational commitment .The research sample consists of 76 participants. In the study Ethical Leadership Scale (Brown et al., 2005), Ethical Climate Scale (Schwepker et al., 1997), Organizational Commitment Scale (Meyer and Allen, 1991) and personal information form prepared by the researchers is used to collect data. As a result of the Pearson correlation analysis positive relationships between ethical climate-ethical leadership; ethical leadership-organizational commitment and ethical climate-organizational commitment are found. Moreover, ethical climate and ethical leadership has a positive relationship with the sub-dimensions of organizational commitment (normative commitment and affective commitment), while there is a negative but non-significant relationship with continuance commitment. In addition, high portion of organizational commitment is explained by ethical leadership, while effect of ethical climate is lower. Finally, there is no significant relationship between age, duration of work and organizational commitment and also here is no significant difference according to be a blue or white collar with the level of organizational commitment.