A Study on the Impact of Ethical Climate on Work Engagement: With Special Reference to Operational Level Employees at Brandix Lingerie Wathupitiwela

Abstract

Modern organizations need able and willing employees to invest in their jobs psychologically. It is timely to check weather Work Engagement has something to do with ethical climate of an employee. There is a lack of research in studying the impact of Ethical Climate on Work Engagement. The current study was aimed at identifying the impact of Ethical Climate on Work Engagement of operational level employees in garment sector.Research problem of the study was derived as why there is a low level of Work Engagement of operational level employees in garment sector. Simple Regression was performed to investigate the impact of ethical climate on Work Engagement and Multiple Regression was performed to investigate the impact of dimensions of Ethical Climate on Work Engagement. Work engagement acts as the dependent variable of the study. The ethical climate acts as the independent variable of the study including five dimensions; Caring, Law & Code, Rules, Instrumental and independence. Through this study, it was concluded that the Ethical Climate impacts on Work Engagement; Law & Code, Rules and Independence impact on Work Engagement. The study contributes theoretically and empirically to the broad HR management discourse.