Ethical Climate & Safety Performance Design Better Programs, Improve Compliance And Foster Participation

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Abstract: Ethics canplay a significant rolein employees’ deci-sions to comply withsafety rules and partic-ipate in safety-enhanc-ing initiatives. Anorganization’s ethicalenvironment can alsoinfluence employees’ethical perspectiveand behavior. Oneuseful means forunderstanding thisenvironment is ethicalclimate, which embod-ies the employees’shared understandingof what is consideredright or wrong withinthat organization. Byassessing its ethical cli-mate, a company candevise better ways toreduce employeeresistance to safetyefforts, induce greaterlevels of complianceand participation, andachieve better safety. Representative Descriptions of Ethical Climate Types Ethical climate type Representative descriptionsEgoistic Table 1 Table 1BenevolentPrincipled†In this company, people are mostly out forthemselves.†People in this company are very concernedabout what is best for themselves.†People are expected to do anything to furtherthe company’s interests.†In this company, people look out for eachother’s good.†The major consideration is what is best foreveryone in the company.†People in this company view team spirit asimportant.†It is very important to strictly follow the com-pany’s rules and procedures here.†Successful people in this company obey thecompany policies.†In this company, the law or ethical code oftheir profession is the major consideration.

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