A stady on the relationship between organizational culture and business ethics

In recent years, the organizational culture has become prominent in business management and organization literature. Especially, beginning from 1980?s, the business enterprises have understood the importance of the organizational culture; to get adapted the world, getting developed and global, and to maintain, their existance they started to make works on investigation and development. Organizational culture is the sum of the individual cultural perceptions. Every each individual in organization has special perception. The interactivity between them creates an ambiance that affects each individual?s perspectives. The shared perspectives that create social values are at the same time basis of organizational culture.In today?s competing world its essential for organizations to assimilate work ethics in both providing organizational safety and presenting high quality working conditions. Business ethics is the ethic rules in which dominates the administration. All of these rules gather ethic values of person and groups who interest the management together. Rules, that effect all politics, laws, relationships and behaviors were defined by conversation earlier. However nowadays they are determinated by written.This study analyses the correlation between organizational culture and business ethics. The study consists of three sections. In the first two sections; the expression of culture and organizational culture, the elements of organizational culture, the models and approaches related with the organization culture, the expression of ethic and business ethics, the elements of business ethics, principles of business ethics and the relationship between business ethics and organizational culture are examined. In the third section, the results derived from a study on the sample individuals from one of the companies which activities in food industry in Kutahya to determine the relation between the organization culture and business ethics faktors is presented.