The ethical leadership and climate as the determiners of the organizational identification: A field study on hotel establishments

The aim of this study is to research whether ethical leadership and common ethical climate in the organizations has an impact on individuals? identification with their organizations or not. The study, which is a relational one, explains the relationships between variables and presents the status of the field of the study. The study covers five-star hotel establishments in Turkey. First, descriptive statistics, then structural equation modeling among multivariate statistics were used in analyzing the findings of the study.The questionnaire of the study consists of three sections and demographical variables. The first section consists of demographical questions. The second section consists of an ethical climate scale which has 36 items. In the third section, there are ten questions regarding ethical leadership scale. In the fourth section, there is an identification scale with six items to evaluate organizational identification. Findings from this research indicates that ethical leadership has an impact on ethical climate and organizational identification; and furthermore, ethical climate has an impact on organizational identification. That there is a positive relationship between the levels of ethical leadership and organizational identification is among the study?s findings (r=0,537; p<0,001). In addition to this, there is positive and significant relationship between the dimensions of ethical climate and ethical leadership. Positive and significant relationships were detected between ethical climate dimensions and organizational identification. In this study, apart from the other studies in the literature, it is seen that there is a positive consequences between ethical leadership, organizational identification and instrumentalist ethical climate.Findings of this research indicates that ethical climate has a partial mediation effect between ethical leadership and organizational identification. In the study, the impact of ethical climate on organizational identification is found as g= 0,60; and, after the inclusion of the mediating variable to the model, this impact falls back to g= 0,26. In addition to all these, the subdimensions of ethical climate have a partial mediation effect on the relationship between ethical leadership and organizational identification.