The Effects of Ethical Climates on Organizational Commitment: A Two-Study Analysis

By John B. Cullen, K. Parboteeah, Bart Victor. 2003

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Subfields: Demography, Information Systems and Management, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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The Mediating Effect of Ethical Climate on the Relationship Between Paternalistic Leadership and Team Identification: A Team-Level Analysis in the Chinese Context (2014, neutral): “Therefore, we take ethical climate at the team level and observe the perceptions of all the team members toward ethical climate, then classify team ethical climate, in accordance with Cullen et al. (2003), into the three basic criteria of moral judgment: egoism, benevolence, and principle.”
The relationship of ethical climate to deviant workplace behaviour (2005, background): “In their research, Cullen et al. (2003) determined that the ethical climate that was present in an organization was related to the amount of organizational commitment that was observed.”
Are Bullying Behaviors Tolerated in Some Cultures? Evidence for a Curvilinear Relationship Between Workplace Bullying and Job Satisfaction Among Italian Workers (2015, background): “The ethical climates “serve as a perceptual lens through which workers diagnose and assess situations’’ (Cullen et al. 2003 : p. 129).”
The Virtuous Influence of Ethical Leadership Behavior: Evidence from the Field (2009, background): “An ethical climate, in turn, affects individuals’ attitudes toward their jobs and the organization (Cullen et al., 2003; Treviño et al., 1998).”
Ethical work climate, employee commitment and proactive customer service performance: Test of the mediating effects of organizational politics (2017, background): “Following Cullen et al. (2003), we expect that perceived ethical climate leads to positive employee affective commitment.”
Shareholder Wealth Maximization and Social Welfare: A Utilitarian Critique (2013, background): “Indeed, empirical work by Cullen, Parboteeah, and Victor (2003) found that benevolent and principled organizational climates increased commitment among managers 10 while egoistic climates decreased commitment.”
The Impact of Emotional Intelligence, Organizational Commitment, and Job Satisfaction on Ethical Behavior of Chinese Employees (2013, background): “Furthermore, previous research has found a strong relationship between ethical climate and organizational commitment (Cullen et al. 2003; Koh and Boo 2004).”
Assembling Fragments Into a Lens: A Review, Critique, and Proposed Research Agenda for the Organizational Work Climate Literature (2009, background): “Likewise, Cullen et al. (2003) found that professional status moderated the relationship between commitment and ethical climate.”
The Impact of Ethical Behavior and Facets of Job Satisfaction on Organizational Commitment of Chinese Employees (2011, background): “Previous research has found a strong relationship between ethical climate and organizational commitment (Cullen et al. 2003; Koh and Boo 2004).”
The effects of perceived external prestige, ethical organizational climate, and leader‐member exchange (LMX) quality on employees' commitments and their subsequent attitudes (2011, background): “In addition, in a study of Korean tourism industry employees, Kim and Miller (2008) confirmed the findings of Cullen et al. (2003) along with new founding of moral caring as a climate factor.”