The 10 items constituting the PELS were contained within a 37-item Perceptions of Ethical Climate (PEC) survey constructed to assess employees perceptions of the effectiveness of the agency's ethics program as it related to informal and formal norms ethical decision making, and the employees' awareness of existing ethical We reference the other scales presented in Pelletier and Bligh, as we will conduct a re-analysis of those data ultimately separating the original PELS items into Top Leadership and Immediate supervisor subscales, and correlating those subscale scores with the other variables included in the original study. The other scales were the Ethics Code Awareness Scale (6 items, α=0.82), the perceptions of Ethical Decision-Making Processes (2 terms α= 0.55), three subscales of the Perceptions of Ethical Resources Scale (time, 3 items α= 0.65; organizational financial resources, 4 items, α= 0.90, and ethics information, 3 items, α= 0.83), Perceptions of Informal Ethical Norms (5 items, α= 0.82), and Perceptions of Ethics Program Effectiveness (4 items α=0.79). All items were presented on a 7-point Likert scale (1=strongly disagree, 7= strongly agree) with higher values representing higher levels of agreement.