Climate of Organizational Ethics to Business Satisfaction (Study of SME in South Sulawesi)

摘要

Organizational ethics plays an important role in shaping a good climate for all members of the organization. The ethical issues concerning to social problem, protection of the rights of employees, public society (social responsibility) and also consumers. The application of ethics in organization raises the employee job satisfaction (see organizational justice theory and cognitive dissonance theory). This study was analyzed with the multiple regression method by taking the obj ect of research on 350 SME businesses in three regencies, East Luwu, Bone and Tana Toraja in South Sulawesi. This study was focused in three forms, namely egoistic ethical climate, benevolent, and principled ethical climate. The results of the study show that organizational climate is like egoistic ethics climate and benevolence ethical climate the organization does not show positive results on employee job satisfaction. However, the coefficient of egoistic climate has negative influence on job satisfaction. Whereas principled ethical climate shows a positive and significant influence on employee job satisfaction.