Ethical Business Culture and Its Impact on Unethical Behaviors in the Workplace: Conceptual Implications

Abstract

A significant number of contemporary researches on business ethics and its importance can be found in most acclaimed academic articles. However, there is yet a research that specifically focuses on how ethical business culture affects the ethical behaviors of businessmen. Hence, this paper will conceptually investigate ethical business culture and how this ethical context negatively affect ethical misconduct of businessmen in the workplace. This study aims to indicate the essentiality of facilitating ethical business culture in business organizations. It is necessary to establish a proper and clear understanding about how ethical business culture helps enhance ethical work behaviors. Such understanding should be beneficial for business leaders as well as organizational development practitioners in promoting business ethics by creating an ethically-sound culture in business organization.