NICE JOURNAL OF BUSINESS

TOPIC- Managerial Hierarchy and

Ethical behavioral practices: A study in BHEL
AUTHOR :- Dr T.S. Tomar (associate Professor in Commerce, SMJN PG College,
Haridwar, Uttarakhand).
Year :- 2018
Impact Factor :-
Citation :- Presented By :- Komal
Nagar
This study seeks to examine the extent of
ethical behavior of employees working in
large public sector manufacturing company
and to measure the attitude of the
employees working at different levels of
managerial hierarchy.
 Objectives :

1.To examine the extent to which employee at BHEL

conform to ethical norms,
2.To explore the extent to which the employees apply their
personal and moral standards to the activities and goals of
his commercial enterprise,
3.To evaluate the ethical perception of the employees with
respect to the hierarchy of employees.
 Hypothesis :

1. Ho1 : The ethical behavior and hierarchy of

employees are associated significantly {Accepted}.
2. Ho2 : The employees at higher managerial
hierarchy in the BHEL tend to be more ethical
{Rejected}.
3. Ho3 : There is significant difference among the
employees in different categories on the basis of
their socio-economic characteristics {Accepted}.
 Methodology :
The study includes all the employees of BHEL, Haridwar, who were either working in the
Central Foundry Forge Plant(CFFP) or in the Heavy Electricals Equipment plant(HEEP).Same
number of respondents from all the three categories were taken for the purpose of exploring the
difference in the dynamics of behavior. Managers, senior managers and all general managers
were included in category1 (Grade holders of E4, E5, E6, E6A, E7, E8).Category second
included engineers, senior engineers, senior accounts officers, deputy managers and junior
executives(Grades of E-1, E-2, E-3, E-T, J.E.).While assistant engineers, senior artisans II,
Accounts officer, assistant accounts officer, senior technicians, additional engineers and deputy
engineers(Grades of A-8 to A-12 and S-0 to S-8) at BHEL, Haridwar were placed into category
third. The study is based on a sample of 422 employees and a data was collected through
convenience sampling using a questionnaire. For analyzing the data, the statistical techniques
used included the measures of central tendency, reliability analysis, chi-square, independent
sample t-test and one way analysis of variance. SPSS version 22 and AMOS version 20 were
also used to compute the results.
 variables :

Dependent :- Ethical practices

Independent :- Hierarchy of employees
 Conclusion
1. Social values are the most relevant to the ethical practices of the organization. It is evident that institutional
factors, personal factors and the organizational factors influence the ethical standards of the employees.
2. It is evident that meaningful work, organizational justice and privilege perceive fairness and positive synergy
to improve ethical practices in the organization, resulting full engagement and satisfaction of employees working
at different managerial hierarchies.
3. The ethical practices and managerial hierarchy are found to inversely related as reflected by a negative sign of
the co-efficient of correlation (r).
4. One-way ANOVA analysis makes it evident that the dependent variable (ethical practices) and independent
variable (hierarchy of employees) are significantly differ.
5. The ethical practices of employees and their socio-economic characteristics of age, work experience, and
salary are significantly different. Employees working in higher age group are found to be of higher managerial
hierarchy and greater experienced and salaried employees of the population are found working in higher
managerial hierarchy.
6. Interpreting the results on the basis of categories of employees with distinct level of ethical practices, it has
been concluded that maximum number of respondents with higher level of ethical behavior belongs to the lower
level management. However, maximum number of the respondents adopting unethical practices belongs to the
highest level of managerial hierarchy.
 Limitations

The study is limited to the practices of employees working in

public-sector heavy electricals firm, with a sample of 422
employees. There is an ample scope for further research on
employees' ethical practices in other undertakings as well as inter-
firm comparative study on ethical practices of employees.
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