The relationship of organizational ambidexterity with whistleblowing act and employees' intention to leave

Ambidexterity comprehensively explains an organization's ability to accomplish two unfamiliar things at the same time. Able to use both hands organizations exploit current or existing capabilities together with exploring new circumstances with equal dexterity. Ability to pursue mutual exploitive and exploratory activity relies on mixes contradictory organizational qualifications like decentralization, formalization and connectedness. In the recent period, increasing complexity of business life and performance pressure cause ethical/unethical behaviors and their impacts becoming apparent in the organizations. Whistleblowing is one of some of the responses that employees show in relation to organizational wrongdoings. These employees are those who inform illegal or unethical actions in an organization instead of keeping quiet. They are named as 'disclosers'; the disclosure act realized is named as whistleblowing. The study aims to describe organizational ambidexterity strategy; considered as one of the newest concepts in organization and management literature, and whistleblowing, as an ethical behavior, and its impacts on organizations that can manage the organizational ambidexterity strategy. Data was obtained from Academicians working on both public and private Universities in Turkey and the research also tries to find an answer to academicians' decisions' on whistleblowing and organizations attitude and the the dilemma of employees' intention to leave their careers. Keywords: Organizational Ambidexterity, Exploiting Ambidexterity, Exploring Ambidexterity, Whistle blowing, Internal Whistleblowing, Silent Act, Intention To Leave