Integrity climate questionnaire

Studies concerning integrity and fraud are always assumed to have a correlation with each other. The notions of having higher levels of ethicalness and integrity are expected to reduce fraud, corruption or misappropriations in an organisation. The purpose of this study was to observe integrity clima...

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Main Authors: Afzal Izzaz Zahari, Jamaliah Said, Roshayani Arshad
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2019-01-01
Series:Cogent Psychology
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23311908.2019.1626541
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description Studies concerning integrity and fraud are always assumed to have a correlation with each other. The notions of having higher levels of ethicalness and integrity are expected to reduce fraud, corruption or misappropriations in an organisation. The purpose of this study was to observe integrity climate relationship towards integrity violations. The study seeks to validate integrity climate questionnaire which has been validated from known experts. The integrity climate measures integrity climate through elements of honesty, conscientiousness and principle. The initial phase was establishing relevant constructs of which are key points of the integrity of which is then whether these influences integrity violations. The items are then filtered through known experts related to this field. The next phase was to establish the content validity of the instrument design which will be used to measure integrity climates at an organisational level. There are 16 questionnaire items which have shown that it is relevant towards integrity climate. The samples are 80 Malaysian government officers who are employed in an enforcement agency. The results show that conscientiousness to have a strong relationship which is significant towards integrity violations. Honesty and principles have correlations and are still relevant towards the construct of integrity climate.
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spelling doaj.art-c3b6d74014e4406bbffab974d6c75a322022-12-21T21:49:02ZengTaylor & Francis GroupCogent Psychology2331-19082019-01-016110.1080/23311908.2019.16265411626541Integrity climate questionnaireAfzal Izzaz Zahari0Jamaliah Said1Roshayani Arshad2Universiti Teknologi MARAUniversiti Teknologi MARAUniversiti Teknologi MARAStudies concerning integrity and fraud are always assumed to have a correlation with each other. The notions of having higher levels of ethicalness and integrity are expected to reduce fraud, corruption or misappropriations in an organisation. The purpose of this study was to observe integrity climate relationship towards integrity violations. The study seeks to validate integrity climate questionnaire which has been validated from known experts. The integrity climate measures integrity climate through elements of honesty, conscientiousness and principle. The initial phase was establishing relevant constructs of which are key points of the integrity of which is then whether these influences integrity violations. The items are then filtered through known experts related to this field. The next phase was to establish the content validity of the instrument design which will be used to measure integrity climates at an organisational level. There are 16 questionnaire items which have shown that it is relevant towards integrity climate. The samples are 80 Malaysian government officers who are employed in an enforcement agency. The results show that conscientiousness to have a strong relationship which is significant towards integrity violations. Honesty and principles have correlations and are still relevant towards the construct of integrity climate.http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23311908.2019.1626541conscientiousnesshonestyintegrityviolations
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honesty
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title Integrity climate questionnaire
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topic conscientiousness
honesty
integrity
violations
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