WORKPLACE ETHICS AND ORGANIZATIONAL SUCCESS IN SELECTED MANUFACTURING FIRMS OF SOUTH-SOUTH GEOPOLITICAL ZONE, NIGERIA.

Abstract

The study examined Workplace Ethics and Organizational Success in manufacturing firms in south-south geopolitical zone, Nigeria. The study sought to determine how Transparency influences growth of manufacturing firms, accountability influences market share of manufacturing firms and how organizational culture moderate workplace ethics and organizational success. Cross sectional survey design method was adopted. The population comprises 8 selected manufacturing in south-south geopolitical zone, Nigeria and 60 senior staff were sample size drawn from the population using purposive sampling techniques. Instrument used for data collection was questionnaire, data were presented and analyzed using mean score rating to analyze the research questions and statistical tool used for testing their associated hypotheses were Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient Analysis formula with Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 20.  The finding shows that the respondents indicated high extent that transparency and accountability influences growth and market share in the selected manufacturing firms of South-South Zone, Nigeria. The study concludes that workplace ethics is the crucial part for the success of the organization to achieve its goals and objectives. The study revealed that organization has great challenge concerns with ethical issues, not all in organization really like the idea of having ethical standards that controls employees’ morals at workplace, that is why in those selected nonprofit organizations, ethical standards were in place but not all interested on it or think that it influences performance of organization.