TY - JOUR
T1 - Ethics programs, perceived corporate social responsibility and job satisfaction
AU - Valentine, Sean
AU - Fleischman, Gary
PY - 2008/1
Y1 - 2008/1
N2 - Companies offer ethics codes and training to increase employees' ethical conduct. These programs can also enhance individual work attitudes because ethical organizations are typically valued. Socially responsible companies are likely viewed as ethical organizations and should therefore prompt similar employee job responses. Using survey information collected from 313 business professionals, this exploratory study proposed that perceived corporate social responsibility would mediate the positive relationships between ethics codes/training and job satisfaction. Results indicated that corporate social responsibility fully or partially mediated the positive associations between four ethics program variables and individual job satisfaction, suggesting that companies might better manage employees' ethical perceptions and work attitudes with multiple policies, an approach endorsed in the ethics literature.
AB - Companies offer ethics codes and training to increase employees' ethical conduct. These programs can also enhance individual work attitudes because ethical organizations are typically valued. Socially responsible companies are likely viewed as ethical organizations and should therefore prompt similar employee job responses. Using survey information collected from 313 business professionals, this exploratory study proposed that perceived corporate social responsibility would mediate the positive relationships between ethics codes/training and job satisfaction. Results indicated that corporate social responsibility fully or partially mediated the positive associations between four ethics program variables and individual job satisfaction, suggesting that companies might better manage employees' ethical perceptions and work attitudes with multiple policies, an approach endorsed in the ethics literature.
KW - Corporate social responsibility
KW - Job satisfaction
KW - Organizational ethics
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=36749053390&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s10551-006-9306-z
DO - 10.1007/s10551-006-9306-z
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:36749053390
SN - 0167-4544
VL - 77
SP - 159
EP - 172
JO - Journal of Business Ethics
JF - Journal of Business Ethics
IS - 2
ER -