This study theoretically and empirically examines the relationship between organizational ethical climate and innovative behaviors of middle level managers in companies. Additionally, this paper was written to contribute to the ethical management policies, rules and regulations of organizations to discover the impacts on innovative behaviors of employees. The sample data are derived from a questionnaire survey from170 participants in a group of production companies located in ?stanbul, ?zmir, Ankara, Adana, Mersin and Osmaniyein Turkey. The results compared by factor, reliability, correlation and regression analyses confirming the relationship between innovative behavior and organizational ethical climate. As a consequence, these two organizational practices are positively related. The results indicate that perception of positive ethical climate is positively associated with innovative behavior. We discuss our results and their implications for both future academic research and practice.
Copyright: © 2018 The Author(s)
Published by Human Resource Management Academic Research Society (www.hrmars.com)
This article is published under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) license. Anyone may reproduce, distribute, translate and create derivative works of this article (for both commercial and non-commercial purposes), subject to full attribution to the original publication and authors. The full terms of this license may be seen at: http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode
