Mediating Roles of Corporate Goal-Setting, Goal-Orientation and Corporate Ethical Values on Work Attitudes of Bank Employees

Abstract

The present study was conducted to examine the mediating roles of corporate goal setting and goal orientation in corporate ethical values and work attitudes of bank employees in Nigeria. Correlation coefficients and regression analysis were employed. Results showed, among other things, that there was a significant contribution of corporate ethical values to work attitudes of bank employees in Nigeria (t = 8.119, p < .05), significant mediating roles of both corporate goal setting and goal orientation in the contribution of corporate ethical values to work attitudes of bank employees in Nigeria. It was recommended, among other things, that organizations should set specific, attainable goals and foster performance goal orientation among employees.

Corporate Ethical Values and Organizational Justice as Determinants of Workplace Stress, Employees’ Psychological and Social Well-Being

“…It deals with having things in common with others within the community where one belongs. Social acceptance Onunkun (2018) in their view explain that corporate ethical values represent the organization's standard of expected model of behaviours from workers beginning with the board members down to the new entrants in the establishment. However, these set of model behaviours expected from both the employees and customers can be enhanced by a lot other organizational variables which include organizational justice which could promote fairness and just treatment in any workplace.…”