The relationship between organization performance and business ethics applications at human resources management: A sample of Fortune Turkey?s largest 500 corporations

Business ethics has been a concept with constant importance for business world since the first organizations are founded until. Specifically along with globalization, business ethics has intensively attracted attention in practice and academic area. As an expression of this attention, every passing day increasing numbers of organizations arrange their activities based on business ethic principles and inform about their efforts to public opinion. Thus, organizations try to constitute a confident work area in global business world with fierce competition.Performing all organizational functions within the framework of business ethics principles is an important necessity. However, performing HRM function towards business ethics principles has more special importance. Because HRM function aspires to motivate employees, may enrich organization, towards organization purpose. To reach this purpose, all politics and applications of HRM should be implemented based on business ethics principles; such as justice, equality of opportunities, accuracy and honesty. Because of this, performance level of organizations which can provide this are expected to be high.This study aims to exhibit the relationship between organizational performance and business ethics level on basic functions and applications of HRM.Based on the underlying aim of this study, a two level research, pilot test phase and general application phase, has been applied. The universe of this study is created based on 489 private sector organizations that have been listed in Fortune Turkey?s Largest 500 Corporations 2008. Pilot test phase has been applied to test validity and reliability of reformed survey. In this phase, 105 corporations out of the universe of study and located in Kocaeli have been contacted and data has been collected. Collected data has been analyzed and survey has been formatted to its last version to be used in general application phase. In general application phase, standardized survey has been sent to corporations inside the universe and 132 usable surveys have been returned. Reached surveys have been analyzed based on the aim of study and findings have been evaluated.As a result of the performed study; high level relationship with positive orientation between business ethics applications at HRM and organizational performance has been determined. Also, lower level relationship with business ethics applications at HRM has been determined for non ? financial performance size compared to financial performance size.