ETHICAL CLIMATE AND DEVIANT BEHAVIOR AMONG EMPLOYEES OF SELECTED PUBLIC AND PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES: THE CASE OF THE EMERGING COUNTRY

Abstract

The study was borne out of the need to assess the effect of ethical climate on deviant behavior among employees in the educational institutions and the need to ascertain whether workplace deviant behavior has a force to bear with institutional ownership. Questionnaires (375) were distributed among the academic and administrative staff of Ekiti State University (EKSU), Afe Babalola University Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), the Federal University of Technology Akure (FUTA) and Elizade University, Ilara-Mokin (EU); selected using multistage sampling technique. Descriptive statistics (table, percentage) and inferential statistics (simple regression) were employed to analyse the data. Simple regression was used to analyse the data. Based on the test of the hypothesis, the study found that deviant behavior among employees of selected public and private universities can be significantly determined by ethical climate factors. Ethical climate contributed significantly to deviant behaviors in the public and private universities showing probability of t-statistic (.012 &.022) lesser than 5%. Hence, it is concluded that the ethical climate or wrong ethical system is the major determinant of deviant behaviors in selected public and private universities.

Keywords: Ethical Climate, Deviant Behavior, Public, Private

Authors’ individual contribution: Conceptualization – G.O.O. and K.K.A.; Methodology - G.O.O. and K.K.A.; Software – G.O.O. Validation – G.O.O. and K.K.A.; Formal Analyses – G.O.O.; Investigation – G.O.O.; Resources – G.O.O. and K.K.A.; Data Curation – G.O.O.; Writing Original Draft – G.O.O.; Writing – Review and Editing – G.O.O. and K.K.A.; Visualization – G.O.O.; Supervision – K.K.A.; Project Administration – G.O.O. and K.K.A.; Funding Acquisition– G.O.O. and K.K.A.

JEL Classification: D21, D22, J29, J53, J8

Received: 08.05.2019
Accepted: 24.06.2019
Published online: 03.07.2019

How to cite this paper: Obalade, G. O., & Arogundade, K. K. (2019). Ethical climate and deviant behavior among employees of selected public and private universities: The case of the emerging country. Corporate Governance and Organizational Behavior Review, 3(2), 30-39. https://doi.org/10.22495/cgobr_v3_i2_p3