Department of Woman and Child Health and Public Health, Occupational Health Section, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy
Research Article
The Assessment of the Ethical Organizational Culture: Validation of an Italian Short Version of the Corporate Ethical Virtues Model Based Questionnaire
Author(s): Baldassare Corrado Tannorella, Paolo Emilio Santoro, Umberto Moscato*, Maria Rosaria Gualano, Rodolfo Buccico, Maria Francesca Rossi, Carlotta Amantea, Alessandra Daniele, Antongiulio Perrotta and Ivan Borrelli
Background: In the context of the relationship between work and ethics, it is essential to be able to analyse the Ethical Organizational Culture of the work environment through the use of multidimensional tools. The lack of validated tools on the Italian population led us to develop a short Italian version of the Kaptein’s Corporate Ethical Virtues Model. The purpose of this study is to validate this tool to be used in Italy, in public administration notably.
Methods: Within an assessment campaign of the working conditions of the operators (all 10422 white collar employees) of an Italian Public Administration for the purposes of welfare and safety of working conditions we performed a validation study. At the time of the survey, an exploratory factor analysis was carried out by selecting the items on the basis of factor loads. We used t.. View more»