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- Title
Perception of Organizational Ethical Climate by University Staff and Students in Medicine and Humanities: A Cross Sectional Study.
- Authors
Viđak, Marin; Buljan, Ivan; Tokalić, Ružica; Lunić, Anita; Hren, Darko; Marušić, Ana
- Abstract
We assessed students' and employees' perception of ethical climate at a university school of medicine compared to that of social sciences and humanities, as well as temporal changes in the employees' perception of ethical climate. We also explored potential predictors of ethical climate, including moral foundations. This cross-sectional questionnaire study was conducted at the University of Split School of Medicine and the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, in Croatia, from April to September 2019. We used 36-item Ethical Climate Questionnaire and 22-item Moral Foundation Questionnaire to survey employees, senior and doctoral students. We collected responses using ballot boxes as well as online survey. We collected 449 complete responses (response rate 36.8%). The dominant ethical climates at two schools were "Company rules and procedures" and "Laws and professional codes". We compared our results with a study conducted in 2012 and found that the perception of ethical climate had not changed dramatically in last 8 years. Ethical climate, or shared social and work-related behaviours, does not seem to change in these institutions even when students and staff are included with faculty in surveys. We provide further discussion of why this seems to be the case.
- Subjects
CROATIA; CROSS-sectional method; INSTITUTIONAL environment; SENSORY perception; COLLEGE students; SCHOOL environment; MORAL foundations theory
- Publication
Science & Engineering Ethics, 2020, Vol 26, Issue 6, p3437
- ISSN
1353-3452
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11948-020-00270-w