Analyzing the Model of Consequences of Organizational Ethics Climate

One of the main factors for making internal organization is the ethics climate which include pattern that guide employees behavior and show the moral characteristic of each organization. This study aims to investigate the relationship between organizational ethics climate and organizational outcomes that is mediated by organizational commitment and job engagement.
this study is a descriptive-correlation research. Population of study includes all employees of an industrial company in Khuzestan province (N=842). Among all population, 210 subjects were selected randomly. Research tools include the ethical climate scale, organizational commitment scale, job engagement scale, Organizational Citizenship Behavior scale, Counterproductive work behavior scale. Data were analyzed by Pearson coefficient and structural equation.
Results showed that ethical climate had a positive direct effect on organizational commitment, job engagement and organizational citizenship behavior, and a negative direct effect on counterproductive behavior.
Findings also indicated that organizational commitment and job engagement mediated the relations between ethical climate with organizational citizenship behaviors and counterproductive work behaviors.