Hospital Workers Perception of Ethical Climate

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Ethical climate, which is a type of work climate, is the general conception of organizational procedure and practices that include ethical content. It may be considered that more favorable perception of ethical climate in health care services will increase quality of service and would help dealing with problems more effectively. Thus, it is important for managers to know workers’ perception of ethical climate. The purpose of this paper is to analyze perception of ethical climate of public hospital workers and differentiation of the perception between various demographic variables and occupational groups. Results suggest that the average of law and codes dimension of ethical climate is the highest dimension. Independency ratio for primary or secondary school and high school graduates is higher than the one for college graduates. In the instrumental sub dimension, score of the workers working for 5 years or less is higher than the score of workers working for 13-19 years, 20-25 years and 27 years or higher. In the law and codes sub dimension, scores for nurses and administrative staff are higher than the score for doctors.