Ethical Climate and Accountability in Nonprofit Organizations

Laratta, Rosario

doi:10.1080/14719037.2010.501620

Cited by 27 publications

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“…Correspondingly, the interpretive literature highlights the importance of stakeholder confidence for the achievement of NPO organisational mission (Jones & Mucha 2014;Kreander, Beattie, & McPhail, 2009) and consequently in gaining and maintaining moral legitimacy. Studies have sought to explore what accountability means for individuals working within NPOs (Laratta, 2011) and how this impacts their relationship with their key stakeholders (Morrison & Salipante, 2007). For example Ospina, Diaz, and O'Sullivan (2002) find organisational managers favour those mechanisms that help sustain community relationships over other accountability demands, whereas Henderson and Lambert (2018) find NPOs who are heavily reliant on grant funding experience proportionately greater challenges to wider stakeholder engagement, partly because a substantial part of accountability efforts is directed towards funders, at the expense of other stakeholders.…”

Section: Stakeholder Engagementmentioning

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Accountability and legitimacy of non‐profit organisations: Challenging the current status quo and identifying avenues for future research

Yasmin

Ghafran

2021

Financ Acc Manag

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Issues of accountability, legitimacy and trust have remained at the forefront of debate surrounding non-profit organisations and their activities. The purpose of this study is to review the literature on non-profit accountability from the lens of organisational legitimacy. Specifically, we ask what we can learn from the literature on non-profit organisation (NPO) accountability and consider what further work needs to be done to strengthen NPO legitimacy. We attempt to go beyond mere gap-spotting and seek to challenge the current status quo within this body of literature.

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Section: Stakeholder Engagementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Accountability and legitimacy of non‐profit organisations: Challenging the current status quo and identifying avenues for future research

Yasmin

Ghafran

2021

Financ Acc Manag

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“…For example, Stachowicz-Stanusch and Simha (2013) found that whereas law-and-code climates were negatively related to organizational corruption, caring and instrumental climates were positively related to it. Research has also established that ethical climates exert significant effects on executive directors’ perceptions of statutory accountability demands, ability to identify internal and/or external downward accountability mechanisms in non-profit organizations (Laratta, 2011), payment discipline (Salamon & Mesko, 2016), and reduce managers’ propensity to create budgetary slack in public organizations (Ozer & Yilmaz, 2011).…”

Section: Outcomes Of Ethical Climatementioning

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Ethical Climates in Organizations: A Review and Research Agenda

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ABSTRACT:Since seminal meta-analytical work in 2006 we have witnessed burgeoning research on ethical climates. This article offers a comprehensive review of literature examining the antecedents and outcomes of ethical climates over the last decade, as well as moderators of the relationship between ethical climates and other variables. Based on the review, an agenda for future research is also presented. In addition to highlighting the potential for incorporating alternative theoretical perspectives such as situational strength theory, trait-activation theory, social information processing theory, and institutional theory to better our understanding of ethical climates, this article highlights the need for future research to incorporate a dynamic perspective to study ethical climates, examine the curvilinear effects of ethical climates on work outcomes, extend the study of ethical climates to different levels of the organization, and examine the effects of culture on ethical climates.

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“…Ethical climate influences both decision-making and subsequent behaviour in response to ethical dilemmas (Martin and Cullen, 2006). The concept of ethical climate is a powerful and according to Sims (1992) as cited in Laratta (2008) where by the ethical climate of an organization is the shared set of identifications about what correct behaviour is and how ethical issues will be handled. This climate sets the tone for decision making at all levels and in all circumstances.…”

Section: Ethical Climatementioning

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Effectiveness of Quality of Chief Integrity Officer, Ethical Climate on the Level of Ethics and Integrity in the Malaysian Federal

Asmawati

Haron

Ismail

2019

JGI

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The purpose of this quantitative study is to examine the relationship between the level of ethics and integrity with Quality of Chief Integrity Officer (independence, competence, work performance) and ethical climate in the Malaysian public-sector organizations. Out of 128 questionnaires that were emailed to CIOs in the Federal level, 83 questionnaires were received and usable. The results of this study showed that the Quality of CIO (competence, work performance) and ethical climate is significantly related to the level of ethics and integrity of the public sector in Malaysia. CIO need to perform their roles such as coordinating and monitoring programs and report any breaches of integrity without fear and favour. To nurture a good ethical climate in the organization, clear policies, guideline and code of conduct should be established in all government ministries, department and statutory body in the public sector. Non-ethical conduct should be reprimanded, good ethical behaviour should be rewarded accordingly and should be evident to all in the organization. The overall score of the level of ethics and integrity is 79.30%, which shows that the Malaysian public sector is at “seeing ethics and integrity systematically and having a robust approach”.

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Ethical Climate and Accountability in Nonprofit Organizations

Cited by 27 publications

References 22 publications

Accountability and legitimacy of non‐profit organisations: Challenging the current status quo and identifying avenues for future research

Accountability and legitimacy of non‐profit organisations: Challenging the current status quo and identifying avenues for future research

Ethical Climates in Organizations: A Review and Research Agenda

Effectiveness of Quality of Chief Integrity Officer, Ethical Climate on the Level of Ethics and Integrity in the Malaysian Federal

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