Ethical Climate and Moral Efficacy: Moral Ownership as a Moderator

Abstract

Conducting a survey in multiple organizations (mainly in public utilities) in South China, with 73.56% response rate of 331 employees, by using questionnaire with convenience sampling and stratified sampling to get sample data, the relationship among ethical climate, moral ownership and moral efficacy were examined. Using SPSS 22.0 to conduct data analysis, we found support for our hypothesized models that (1) ethical climate will have positively impact on moral efficacy (2) Moral ownership can moderate relationship between ethical climate and moral efficacy, such that the relationship is weaker when moral ownership is high. In the later, we provide theoretical and practical implications of these findings and limitation, as well as suggestions for future avenues for researches and practice.