Exploring the Influence of Perceived Ethical Work Climate upon Organizational Identification in the Jordanian Cellular Telecommunications Companies

Abstract

Business ethics is considered significant to the organization success and essential for their survival and growth. The ethical work climate reflects and defines the ethics of the organization, which can be incorporated into employees’ identity through organizational identification. Therefore, the aim of this study is to identify the impact of perceived ethical work climate upon organizational identification in the Jordanian cellular telecommunications companies. The sample of study composed of (182) employee from the target companies. In order to achieve the study objectives, the researcher designed a questionnaire consisting of (31) paragraph to collect the required data from the study sample. The multiple regression analysis was used to testing the hypothesis. Empirical results found that the law and code, independent, rules, and caring as dimensions of ethical work climate has a positive impact on organizational identification, while instrumental climate as a dimension of ethical work climate has a negative impact on organizational identification. Based on these empirical results the study recommending that the companies should focus largely on the caring, law and codes, rules, and independence as dimensions of ethical climate in order to increase the employees’ organizational identification and make these climates the dominant ethical work climate. On the other hand, the companies should minimize the instrumental climate because it decreases the organizational identification of employees.

Keywords: Business Ethics, Organizational Ethical Climate, Organizational Identification.