Organizational ethical climate, perceived organizational support, and employee silence: A cross-level investigation

This article reports on a study investigating the cross-level relationships of organizational ethical climate on employee silence. Using a sample of 408 full-time employees from 24 high-technology firms in Taiwan, the study conducted multilevel analyses to examine its hypotheses. The results showed...

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Published in:Human relations (New York) 2013-06, Vol.66 (6), p.783-802
Main Authors: Wang, Yau-De, Hsieh, Hui-Hsien
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Associations
Corporate culture
Correlation analysis
Employee attitude
Employees
Ethics
High tech industries
High technology
Human relations
Individual differences
Labor Force Participation
Law
Management
Multidimensional analysis
Organizational behaviour
Organizational culture
Organizational ethics
Organizational support
Professional ethics
Silence
Sociology
Sociology of organizations and enterprises. Bureaucracy and administration
Sociology of work and sociology of organizations
Studies
Taiwan
Telephone hotlines
Work Environment
Worker Attitudes
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Summary:This article reports on a study investigating the cross-level relationships of organizational ethical climate on employee silence. Using a sample of 408 full-time employees from 24 high-technology firms in Taiwan, the study conducted multilevel analyses to examine its hypotheses. The results showed that instrumental climate – one type of organizational ethical climate – had a positive association with acquiescent silence, but not with defensive silence. Another two types of organizational ethical climate – caring climate and independence climate – had a negative association with both acquiescent silence and defensive silence. Rules climate and the law and code climate, the remaining types of organizational ethical climate, were not associated with either the acquiescent silence or the defensive silence. The results also showed that the associations of the instrumental climate, caring climate, and independence climate with acquiescent silence and defensive silence are mediated by the perceived organizational support – an individual-level variable. Implications for management and future research are discussed.
ISSN:0018-7267
1741-282X
DOI:10.1177/0018726712460706