Home⇛International Journal of Multidisciplinary: Applied Business and Education Research⇛vol. 6 no. 1 (2025)

Organizational Information Visibility and Ethical Climate among Line- Agencies in Sulu: An Assessment

Grace A. Akalal

Discipline: social sciences (non-specific)

 

Abstract:

This is a descriptive-correlational study (Aming-Hayudini et al., 2024)that focuses on the extent of organizational information visi-bility and ethical climate among employees of line agencies in Sulu during Fiscal Year 2022. The results indicate that the overwhelming majority of the 200 respondent-employees were female, aged below 30 years old, with 5 or fewer years of service in the organization. Most of them were permanent employees, but nearly half are con-tractuals; most have completed a Bachelor's degree. In terms of or-ganizational information visibility, the line agencies in Sulu manage information availability, approval, and accessibility at a high level. Similarly, the agencies exhibit a strong ethical climate, characterized by high ratings in egoism, benevolence, and principled ethical di-mensions. No significant differences in either organizational infor-mation visibility or ethical climate were found when data were ana-lyzed by gender, age, length of service, appointment status, or edu-cational attainment. Furthermore, a strong positive correlation is established between the sub-categories of organizational infor-mation visibility: availability, approval, and accessibility, and ethical climate: egoism, benevolence, and principled. These findings sup-port the theoretical models by Stohl et al. (2016) on organizational information visibility and Martin & Cullen (2006) on ethical climate, which state that the proper management of organizational infor-mation is very much associated with a positive ethical work climate in the line agencies of Sulu.



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