Ethical Climate and Organizational Citizenship Behaviour

Abstract

The aim of this study is to determine the effects of ethical climate on organizational citizenship behavior (OCB). This research was conducted on the 200 workers that working in various factories within the Kadirli Organized Indisturial Zone. In data collection tool, ethical climate scale of Schwepker (2001) and organizational citizenship behaviour scale of Podsakoff (1990) were used. With a five point Likert scale according to the structured questionnaire were included to the research and collected data were analyzed via SPSS.18 statistical analytical software. According to the results of the analysis, ethical climate has significant and positive relationship between sportsmanship, civic virtue and courtesy but, it has not significant relationship between altruism and conscientiousness which are dimensions of organizational citizenship behaviour.