Ethical climate defined by [2] as the prevailing perception of typical organizational practices and
procedures that have ethical content. According to [9], organization’s ethical climate is one of the component
in organizational culture. However, there are several differences between culture and climate as suggested by
[10] who studied on the differences between organizational culture and climate. [10] concluded that culture
refers to an evolved context (within which a situation may be embedded). It is a shared beliefs, values,
customs, and traditions of an organization [11]. Climate on the other hand refers to a certain situation and it
links to organization member’s thoughts, feelings and behavior. [2] ethical climate model has been
widely used by most researchers on ethical climate studies especially by western researchers [12],
[6], [13], [14]. This model, is known as the ‘Typology of ethical work climates’, which consists of
three bases or criteria of moral judgment namely egoism, benevolence, and principled. The three
bases are represented in Table 1.