This study examined the ethical behavior of employees at different managerial levels in a large Indian public sector manufacturing company, BHEL. 422 employees were surveyed using a questionnaire to analyze the relationship between ethical practices and hierarchy. It found that ethical practices decreased with increased managerial level, with the lowest level managers exhibiting the most ethical behavior. Additionally, ethical practices were significantly associated with socio-economic factors like age, experience, and salary. The study was limited to one public sector firm and the author suggests expanding such research to other companies and industries.
This study examined the ethical behavior of employees at different managerial levels in a large Indian public sector manufacturing company, BHEL. 422 employees were surveyed using a questionnaire to analyze the relationship between ethical practices and hierarchy. It found that ethical practices decreased with increased managerial level, with the lowest level managers exhibiting the most ethical behavior. Additionally, ethical practices were significantly associated with socio-economic factors like age, experience, and salary. The study was limited to one public sector firm and the author suggests expanding such research to other companies and industries.
This study examined the ethical behavior of employees at different managerial levels in a large Indian public sector manufacturing company, BHEL. 422 employees were surveyed using a questionnaire to analyze the relationship between ethical practices and hierarchy. It found that ethical practices decreased with increased managerial level, with the lowest level managers exhibiting the most ethical behavior. Additionally, ethical practices were significantly associated with socio-economic factors like age, experience, and salary. The study was limited to one public sector firm and the author suggests expanding such research to other companies and industries.
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 :- 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. Thank you 🙏
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