The relationship between employees' demographic profile and individual ethical behaviour: The application in public sector

The main purpose of this study is to investigate of relation between employees? demographic profile and individual ethical behaviour. In the first chapter, some definition of ethics, historical development, differences between moral and ethics concepts are defined. Especially, the effects of individual ethical behaviour are examined in order to become conscious about business ethics. In the second chapter, business ethics concept is discussed according to individual and organization. In additon, historical development of business ethics, theoretical factors and ethical problems face on the organizaton are emphasized with different aspects. In the third chapter, an application related with the subject is given. The application is made by using a questionnaire which is applied to an organization of public sector. 362 of 500 given questionnaire forms have been selected for a proper analysis. Statistics methods and Anova have been used in order to analyse the hypothesis of the study. The findings of the study indicate that there is no relationship between employees? individual ethical behaviour and their age. On the other hand, there is a relationship between education level and responsibility which is one of the individual ethical behaviour. From the findings of the study, employees graduated from university and master/doctoral degree have higher responsibility behaviour than graduated from high school. In addition, there is a relationship between responsibility, uprightness and honesty which are individal ethical behaviour and employees? job position. Finally, it is found that there is a significant relationship between self-protection and years of job experience. Moreover, self-protection is increased by increasing years of job experience