Turkish Journal of Business Ethics

The Sarbanes-Oxley act (SOX for short), which was passed by the Congress of the United States of America in 2002 in response to various corporate scandals, has had a profound effect on management practice to this date. Although this particular law originated from the US due to the fact that many multi-national companies operate throughout the globe American firms in different countries, including Turkey, have been touched by the extensions of the law. The effects of the SOX law have also been seen in the fi eld of Total Quality Management (TQM for short). Business excellence models that are applied successfully around the world (US based Malcolm Balridge award is one of these) now give special emphasis on business ethics. The purpose of this study is to highlight the importance of business ethics and SOX law for Total Quality Management and demonstrate how TQM and standardization efforts in general have a positive infl uence on business ethics. This paper will briefl y mention the extent of the SOX law and its history, and examine the relationship between the TQM applications (such as Balridge Award and ISO standards) and the SOX law and business ethics.

The main purpose of this research is to investigate the relationship between organizational citizenship behaviours and value preferences of teachers and principals. The participants of this research includes 252 principals and teachers who are on duty in state schools in west side of Istanbul province. In addition, in the research personal information form, Schwartz value scale and Yücel organizational citizenship behaviours scale are used for collecting data. As result of the analyses, there is a meaningful relationship between the value preferences the organizational citizenship behaviours. As the importance given to the organizational citizenship behaviours increases, also the organizational citizenship behaviour increases.

Information technology is recognized as essential tools for electronic health records. Modern health care delivery is complex and electronic health record has different roles in different settings. Although patients/individuals are the focus of health care, the traditional client server model is being rapidly changed. Therefore electronic health care data must focus on fundamental ethical principles. Information technology has the same barriers like high cost, complex structure, lack of data standards and no privacy protection, At the same time, the system has benefits like reducing health care costs and medical errors, and helping clinical decisions. The aim of this article is to explaine how electronic health records have ethical problems and to give knowledge about the necessary characteristics of electronic health records.

In this study, we have analyzed the relationship between sexual harassment and the ethical climate in healthcare settings. From two Turkish hospitals, 215 nurses have participated in this survey. Findings of this research show that about thirty-five percent of the nurses are victim of sexual harassment. Harassers are both from the inside of the hospitals (like supervisors and co-workers) and outside of the hospitals (like patients and relatives of the patients). Analyses show that low caring ethical climate and high instrumental ethical climate seem to have some negative impacts on sexual harassment behaviors. Consequently, it is necessary and beneficial that management of these hospitals should support caring and respectful relationships among the stakeholders and take the necessary measurements to stop the harmful consequences.

The purpose of this survey is to conduct a multi dimensional study of the mobbing behaviours that are perceived at school environment by guidance counselors who work at the primary public schools. The study was conducted on the 306 primary public school guidance counselors (217 female, 89 male) who work on the Anatolian Side of Istanbul city. The study was applied as a survey model. As the data gathering method, a mobbing questionnaire which is developed by Abbas Ertürk and adopted by the researcher was used. As a result of the survey, according to the gender variable it was observed that the male counselors are less exposed to mobbing behaviours rather then their female colleagues. When it comes to the marital status variable being married, single or to belong to the other category it did not seem to make a huge difference. It was understood that most of the counselors both work at the first and second levels of primary schools alone. Thus, the counselors who have a statistically great percentage work at the two levels at the same time. This group again seems to have perceived the mobbing behaviours most. In terms of age; 41-46 age, 47-52 age, 53 age and the above group. The finally investigated variable of work experience points out that the respondents whose work experience is 16-20 years, 21 years and more seems to be less mobbed.

The main purpose of this article is to highlight that performing the task of productivity as a core responsibility for organizations requires an occupational ethic and competence. In parallel with this point, this article emphasizes the importance of the performing the task of productivity for corporate survival. In line with the principle that having occupational ethics means meeting the professional requirements of the occupation, this article refers to the key role of using job description documents outlining job requirements for recruitment purposes. In the wake of this emphasis, this article suggests to sort out employees and managers by triage who do not meet the job requirements outlined in the job description documents. This practice is considered essential both for an efficient company management and for granting the codes of ethics an aspect of 'credibility'.