CORPORATE ETHICAL ORIENTATION: IMPACT ON ETHICAL BEHAVIOUR AND PERSON JOB FIT

The presence of regulations and code of ethics is not a panacea for ensuring ethical conduct of business. In practice we notice that corporate giants comply with all the regulations put forth by the law but are not able to sustain in their businesses. Understanding the need for being ethical in a sector like micro finance and learning the challenges of the sector. This study tries to analyze how employees perceive about the ethical context of their organization and how it relates to the ethical behavior of the employees and analyses whether it impacts the person job fit. The study uses MANOVA, correlation and regression to tests the hypotheses. It was evident from the descriptive that respondents perceived their organisations as ethical and exhibited an ethical behaviour and they perceived a moderate fit with their job roles. The findings showed that the perception about ethical orientation of the organisation, ethical behavior and person job fit shows a significant relation to the departments they belong to, tenure in the present organisation and the experience in the sector. The significant relationship between the variables reveal that if the organisations can nurture an ethical orientation amongst its employees would contribute to positive outcomes like ethical behavior and person job fit which are related many other positive performance measures. The regression results showed that the corporate ethical orientation creates an impact on the ethical behavior and person job fit.