Ethical Work Climate, Moral Courage, Moral Distress and Organizational Citizen Ship Behavior among Nurses

Abstract

Background: Ethical work climate and moral courage are important elements affecting nurses’ organizational
citizenship behaviour.
Aim: Explore the relationships among ethical work climate, moral courage, moral distress and organizational
citizenship behaviour among nurses at Zagazig University Hospitals.
Method: Used the descriptive design, and the stratified random sample to choose 384 nurses. Four tools
were handled for data collection: Ethical climate questionnaire, professional moral courage scale, moral
distress scale and organizational citizenship behaviour scale.
Results: Illustrates that 89.1% of nurses had positive perceptions of ethical work climate. Likewise, 85.4%
and 83.1% of nurses had high levels of moral courage and moral distress, respectively, and 47.7% of them
had a moderate level of organizational citizenship behaviour.
Conclusion: Ethical work climate was significantly and positively correlated to moral courage and
organizational citizenship behaviors and negatively with moral distress.
Recommendations: Managers should maintain an ethical relationship with nurses that help them improve
their performance.