Ethical workplace climate in nonprofit organizations
Conceptualization and measurement
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21259639 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Govind Gopi Verma (0000-0001-7875-3414, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, corresponding author), Saswata Narayan Biswas (0000-0001-8037-3197, Institute of Rural Management Anand) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1217-1232 |
| Publication date | 2023-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Business Ethics, the Environment & Responsibility (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2694-6416 • E-ISSN: 2694-6424 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/beer.12568 |
| OpenAlex | W4382401923 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 98 |
Ethical workplace climate has been extensively researched in the for‐profit context but neglected in nonprofits. Perhaps because nonprofits promote shared values, engage with people, and implement development interventions creating public good, they are considered implicitly ethical. This assumption has been questioned in recent studies. We attempted to develop a psychometrically valid scale measuring ethical workplace climate following a sequential research design to fill this gap. We interviewed 74 employees from 30 nonprofit organizations using the critical incident technique to generate statements on ethical workplace climate. The statements generated were categorized with expert judges' help, followed by a survey of 507 nonprofit employees across India. The exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and subsequent confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) resulted in a 43‐item scale, further reduced to 26 items using stepwise regression. Results of subsequent application of EFA and CFA confirmed a four‐factor solution: self‐interest, collegiality, internal legitimacy, and stewardship. A follow‐up study of 243 members of nonprofit organizations confirmed the hypothesized relationships that ethical work climate has a significant effect on affective commitment and job engagement. Finally, we discussed our findings along theoretical contributions, implications, limitations, and future direction
Business · Conceptualization · Confirmatory factor analysis · Exploratory factor analysis · Organisation climate · Political science · Psychometrics · Public relations · Ethics in Business and Education · Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior · Psychology · Social Psychology · Workplace Spirituality and Leadership · Marketing
Scale Construction and Psychometrics for Social and Personality Psychology
Commitment in the Workplace
Scaling Procedures
Structural Equation Modeling with Mplus
The use of expert judges in scale development
Affective commitment to the organization
Antecedents and consequences of employee engagement
A Review and Evaluation of Exploratory Factor Analysis Practices in Organizational Research
Factor recovery by principal axis factoring and maximum likelihood factor analysis as a function of factor pattern and sample size
A new criterion for assessing discriminant validity in variance-based structural equation modeling
Sources of Method Bias in Social Science Research and Recommendations on How to Control It
Ethical Work Climate 2.0
The Measurement of Work Engagement With a Short Questionnaire
The Nonprofit sector
Inside NGOs
Some Theory and Applications of Confirmatory Second-Order Factor Analysis
Toward a Conditional Analysis of NGO-Local Government Relations in Developing Countries
The critical incident technique reappraised
Moral development
The Ethical Climate Questionnaire
From zero to villain
Objectifying content validity
In search of the non-profit sector II
Volunteer Motivation and Organizational Climate
Valuing Organizational Values
NGO Behavior and Development Discourse
Developing and Validating a Measure of Stakeholder Culture for the Not-for-Profit Sector
Charity Transgressions, Trust and Accountability
Confronting the classification problem
Holding Our Own
Ethical climate in nonprofit organizations
Ascertaining the validity of individual protocols from Web-based personality inventories
A Comparison of the Values and Commitment of Private Sector, Public Sector, and Parapublic Sector Employees
Sampling Knowledge
Principles and Practice of Structural Equation Modeling
The critical incident technique
Promotions and Incentives in Nonprofit and for-Profit Organizations
Nonprofits Are Seen as Warm and For-Profits as Competent
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| Highly cited | No |