Climate is a shared perception of the nature of the organization, its policies, procedures and its "way of doing things" (Vardi 2001, p. 327). Organizational climate and ethics of leaders, at both levels, were clearly linked, pro- viding some of the strongest correlations of the study. How employees perceived their general organizational climate had considerable overlap with their assessment of the ethical perspectives of their top leaders and supervisors Our expectation that top leader ethics would be more highly correlated with climate was confirmed, supporting that top leader ethics are an important part of the overall organizational fabric. The strength of the link between supervisor ethics and climate was somewhat surprising as climate is predominantly an organizational focus, which logically would be more associated with leaders at the top than an immediate supervisor. Perhaps the strength of the correlation even at the supervisory level demonstrates the potency or saliency of ethical issues regardless of the leader being evaluated for ethical behavior