Developing and testing a measure for the ethical culture of organizations: the corporate ethical virtues model

By M. Kaptein. 2007

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Information Systems and Management, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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Citations in the corpus

Do Ethical Leaders Get Ahead? Exploring Ethical Leadership and Promotability (2010, background): “Most germane to the present study is the dimension of ethical culture that deals with the degree to which ethical leader behavior is rewarded and unethical behavior punished by management, also known as “ethical environment” (Treviño et al., 1998) or “sanctionability” (Kaptein, 2008).”
Leader Ethical Decision-Making in Organizations: Strategies for Sensemaking (2012, background): “In fact, Kaptein (2008) identified eight factors which can influence an organization’s ethical culture and promote EDM among leaders.”
Authentic Leadership and Behavioral Integrity as Drivers of Follower Commitment and Performance (2011, methodology): “Simons (2002, 2008) argued that there are several factors that drive BI.”
Does the Ethical Culture of Organisations Promote Managers’ Occupational Well-Being? Investigating Indirect Links via Ethical Strain (2011, methodology): “This is in line with the results of the original model (Kaptein, 2008), where the feasibility factor had the lowest loading to the second-order factor of ethical culture, thus indicating a distinctive nature of this factor.”
The Associations between Ethical Organizational Culture, Burnout, and Engagement: A Multilevel Study (2014, methodology): “the shared experiences of the ethical culture dimensions (Kaptein 2008) varied from one work unit to another.”
How to Measure Integrity Violations (2011, background): “Kaptein 2008 ) also influence judgments of the acceptability and the observed frequency of this type of integrity violations.”
Blind forces (2014, background): “…et al., 1998) that includes ‘‘six items for the sanctions of ethical and unethical conduct, three items for role modeling of top management, three items for implementation of an ethics code, and one item for whether ethical behavior is the norm in the organization’’ (Kaptein, 2008, p. 923).”
Understanding unethical behavior by unraveling ethical culture (2011, methodology): “According to Kaptein (2008a), visibility refers to the degree to which (un)ethical behavior and its consequences are observable to those who can act upon it – the perpetrators as well as their colleagues, supervisor, manager, and subordinates.”
Ethical leadership at work questionnaire (ELW): Development and validation of a multidimensional measure (2011, background): “Recently, a validated measure of employee ethical conduct has become available (Kaptein, 2008).”
Explaining workplace delinquency: The role of Honesty–Humility, ethical culture, and employee surveillance (2015, background): “The ethical organizational culture scale (Kaptein, 2008; henceforth 'ethical culture'), which was administered in the second wave, contains 58 items, rated on a 1–6 (strongly disagree–strongly agree) scale.”