Integrative Study of Unethical Behaviors in Organization

The purpose of this study is to investigate individual and organizational factors which are influencing on unethical behaviors of employees: job burnout and ethical programs orientation. This study investigated the effect of job burnout on the unethical behaviors based on two dimensions: exhaustion and disengagement from work. This research also conceptualized two types of ethics programs in terms of organizational control. One type of ethics programs is a compliant orientation toward control and coercive systems. The other one is a values orientation to achieve employees ethical aspirations and shared values. Major research findings are as follows. First, the results indicated that disengagement had significantly positive influence on the unethical behaviors, while exhaustion had no meaningful effect on the unethical behaviors. Second, the value-oriented ethics programs were significantly and negatively associated with unethical behaviors, while the complianceoriented ethics programs were no related to the unethical behaviors.