The Influence of Ethics at Work Place: A Study at Infrastructure University Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Abstract

The ethics at workplace has become problem for the academicians in recent years. This has emerged as a new phenomenon that needs further search to understand the critical issues that has been ignored in the past. Ethics is something that deals with what is right and what is wrong. The essential concept of ethics is how a civilized human should conduct everyday dealings when interacting with people around them. Ethics differ from acts that affect the individuals to acts that effect the organizations or the community as a whole. Ethics at the workplace may build up as a result of internal or external causes. Personality characteristics, social and interpersonal factors, and organizational factors are considered as the dominant factors in causing ethical behavior or unethical behavior at workplace. The aim of this study is to evaluate the effects of the key independent variables; organizational factors, social and interpersonal factors, and personality characteristics factors on the dependent variable ethics at the workplace. The results of conducting the statistical result of correlation analysis and liner regression analysis, among all independent variables which are
organizational factors, social and interpersonal factors, and personality characteristics factors with the dependent variable which is ethics at the workplace, a result was one of the research hypothesis will be accepted and two hypotheses will be rejected. SPSS Statistics 20 was the most important tool in analyzing the data that will be collected after distributing the questionnaires. There was a lack of available and reliable information from the data collected, since the topic about ethics at the workplace it’s a quiet sensitive topic, respondents does not tell the correct behavior and attitudes.