Saeed Nani; Tayebe Amirkhani; Maryam Abdolmaleki
Volume 21, Issue 1 , May 2017, , Pages 65-91
Abstract
Organizational cynicism as one of the main problems of current organizations, has many negative consequences for the organizations in personal and organizational level. Therefor studying solutions for diminishing this phenomenon, is vital. Considering importance of ethical concerns in organizations, ...
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Organizational cynicism as one of the main problems of current organizations, has many negative consequences for the organizations in personal and organizational level. Therefor studying solutions for diminishing this phenomenon, is vital. Considering importance of ethical concerns in organizations, this paper studies the impact of ethical leadership on decreasing organizational cynicism directly and through the ethical climate. Cultural Heritage and Tourism Organization of Zanjan form the research population. Data gathered by standard questionnaire has been analyzed using structural equation modeling. Results show that there is not significant (direct negative) effect between ethical leadership and organizational cynicism, but if ethical leadership set the stage for flourishing ethical climate, it can decrease organizational cynicism. In this regard, the positive direct impact of ethical leadership on ethical climate has been confirmed.
Seyed Hadi Mousavi Nejad; Hojjat Vahdati; Mohammad Hakkak
Volume 20, Issue 4 , January 2017, , Pages 117-146
Abstract
Given the importance of ethics in business success, management students need to understand ethics and moral judgment to deal with ethical issues and they should become familiar with individual and organizational factors affecting it. Among these factors, ethical climate and ethical ideology can affect ...
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Given the importance of ethics in business success, management students need to understand ethics and moral judgment to deal with ethical issues and they should become familiar with individual and organizational factors affecting it. Among these factors, ethical climate and ethical ideology can affect moral judgment and cause it to chang. In fact, organization ethic principles are the cornerstone for people’s lifestyle that affects their moral judgment in challenging situations. These effects can be different according to ethical ideology. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the effect of ethical climate on moral judgment and investigates the mediating role of moral ideology (idealism and relativism). Research sample was 309 business students in Lorestan University. Data collected using questionnaires and scenario were analyzed using structural equation modeling technique. Results show that the ethical climate both directly and indirectly through idealism positively affects the moral judgment, but this effect was not moderated by relativism. In addition, ethical climate has a positive effect on idealism and negative effect on relativism. Likewise, Idealism and relativism have a positive and negative effect on moral judgments respectively. This study focuses on the different role of ethical ideology in moral judgments especially among management students as its innovation aspect which has not been considered by researchers, and can have a major contribution in the field of management.
