Empirical Study On The Effects Of Organizational Ethics To The Job Satisfaction

In the past ten years, there have been more and more research and literatures in the area of organizational ethics. The managers in the business corporations need to maintain and enhance their competitiveness by creating an ethical climate. The potential benefits that brought by organizational ethics can be seen in many aspects, though the benefits come not directly. The levels of organizational ethics can not just affect financial performance, but also can affect the employees'organizational commitment and turnover.To date, the studies about organizational ethics have been related to developed countries, especially western countries. Yet in China, the empirical researches about the relationship between organizational ethics and job satisfaction are rather fewer. Job satisfaction plays a very important role to a organization. Job satisfaction is associated with higher productivity and benefits. Why a organization can its success is that job satisfaction is a crucial element. As an important capital to company, employees must be satisfactory. Only when the employees are satisfactory, they can show loyalty to their company, and then can do a better job and bring more interests. So organization should pay attention to job satisfaction in the human resource work. The managers need to create an ethical climate to enhance job satisfaction.This paper will do the organizational ethics research in three measures: top management support for ethical behavior, the organization's ethical climate and the association between ethical behavior and career success. Based on the organizational justice and cognitive dissonance theories, we analysis the association between organizational ethics and job satisfaction. So we have three hypotheses here: Top management support for ethical behavior has significant effect on job satisfaction. Ethical climate in the organization has significant effect on job satisfaction. The association between ethical behavior and career success in the organization has significant effect on job satisfaction.The research questionnaire was administered to the students enrolled in the MBA program in Jilin University. We analysis the reliability and validity of the survey data with SPSS software, the results indicated that the scales we use in the paper can explain the variables quite well. We come to the conclusions as below:First, top management support for ethical behavior has significant effect on job satisfaction. The more positive of the top managers, the more satisfaction the employees become.Second, ethical climate in the organization has significant effect on job satisfaction. The employees in the organization can understand and support the ethical climate from the bottom of heart, they will become more satisfaction.Third, the association between ethical behavior and career success in the organization has significant effect on job satisfaction. The employee who can meet the standard of ethical climate will have a better career life than the ones who can't.Through the analysis above, we found that the managers can control the performance by engaging in, supporting and rewarding ethical behavior. What's more, the managers can improve the job satisfaction by the construction of the ethical climate in the organization, and improve the organization commitment. So the organization can gain a better performance. The results can also give some inspirations. Having a better ethical climate is also a way to manage a organization. Managers can strengthen enterprise performance by creating a positive attitude and behavior pattern. Managers should encourage the behaviors that can accord with the goal of the enterprise and weaken the behaviors that can't. Good organizational ethical can become a kind of invisible productivity. By creating a better ethical climate that can be support by the members, the employees will love their company from their hearts. As an important capital in the organization, the company should pay more attention to their employees and become more competitive in the market.Although we got some results in this paper and show the relationship between the organizational ethics and the job satisfaction, there are still some limits in the research. The limits can provide some suggests and directions for future research.First, we just chose three dimensions to explain organizational ethics in the paper: top management support for ethical behavior, ethical climate and association between ethical behavior and career success. But there are more dimensions to explain this concept. So the future research can analysis other dimensions and the relationship between the organizational ethics and other concepts.Second, the research questionnaire was only administered to the students enrolled in the MBA program in Jilin University. The number of the samples was quite small so they can't representative all the managers in Jilin province, let alone all the managers in China. The future research can choose different samples according to economic development level, the regional culture and customs in different areas. For example, the research can choose all the employees in one company or compare the differences between different places.We do hope the research in this paper can give some suggestions about human resource work and make more employees satisfaction. Organizational ethical is a hotspot in the field of human resource management in western world. Improving the job satisfaction is also an important work in practice. A good organizational ethics can effect job satisfaction. It is necessary to understand the relationship for managers. The organization can gain more benefit through creating better policies in human resource management. A good organizational ethical can be an invisible productivity.