Date of Conferral
2017
Degree
Doctor of Business Administration (D.B.A.)
School
Management
Advisor
Karin Mae
Abstract
An ethical organizational environment ensures a trustworthy organization. This case study explored strategies that banking managers in the United Arab Emirates used to create an ethical organizational environment, one that emphasized the inclusion of ethical values, moral principles, and commitment to society. The target population included senior managers who created and implemented strategies to ensure employees adopted the ethical values in pursuit of an ethical environment. Ethical climate theory provided the conceptual framework for this study. Interviews with 5 managers and company documentation contributed the data for this research. Data were analyzed following inductive investigation and case description. Connecting corporate values with measurable indicators emerged as the most prominent strategy among these 5 managers. Translating soft value statements into hard performance factors allowed for the creation of an ethical environment that signaled consistent messages about appropriate behavior. Employee engagement was another prominent finding. Providing opportunities for informal interaction allowed employees to establish relationships and facilitated cross-functional collaboration. Other important strategies were related to maintaining transparency and leadership role-modeling. Implications for positive social change include the potential to regain trust in banking by providing banking managers with a guideline to create an ethical organizational environment.
Recommended Citation
Nitsche, Svenja, "Creating an Ethical Organizational Environment in Banking" (2017). Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies. 3625.
https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/3625
Included in
Business Administration, Management, and Operations Commons, Finance and Financial Management Commons, Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods Commons
