Several aspects of the relationship between Ethical climate and bullying have been explored. The aim of this study is to find out the effects of Ethical climate upon the relationship between bullying behavior. This study contributes to the existing research by taking the effects of bullying behavior into account. Regression analysis was performed to examine the relationship between variables. Regression was done to measure the relationship between ethical climate and bullying behavior. The more positive is ethical climate, the less is bullying behavior. Bullying has negative impacts on work productivity of organization. The relationship of ethical climate and organizational outcomes suggested that, this climate has effects upon people’ perceptions regarding their job satisfaction and psychological wellbeing. Most of the time effective reactions in the work place are positively associated to perception of comfortable environment. Positive ethical environment should be maintained to subside the deviant behavior and bullying at workplace. Ethical climate helps to get right decision for any organization struggling to decrease the level of bullying. It is demanding to improve the level of ethical decision making, which help to decrease the level of bullying in the workplace. Additionally it is more important for any organization to encourage the dimension of ethical-decision making, if their aim is to decrease bullying behavior. So ethical climate enhances positive relationship with bullying. In an organization where bullying behavior is low, ethical climate will be automatically prevalent
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