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Interventions for ethical climate: a scoping review

Objective: The objectiev of this study is to explore, collect and synthesize existing research regarding interventions to foster ethical climate. Ethical climate influences both the decision-making and subsequent behaviour in response to ethical dilemmas and is usually measured using Victor and Cullen Ethical Climate Questionnaire (ECQ). While evidence shows that ECQ has good theoretical and practical value in determining the type of climate, there is a lack of research regarding interventions to strengthen ethical climate. Methodology: Search strategy will be developed in collaboration with a librarian who has experience in systematic reviews. We will include all published articles describing development, piloting and/or evaluating interventions for improving ethical climate in organizations, including academic institutions. We will search the reference list of all identified reports and articles and search for registered studies in Open Science Framework. Grey literature search will be performed using specialized databases (base- search.net, opengrey.org and science.gov). Two independent reviewers will assess documents for eligibility, initially reviewing titles and abstracts, and then the full text of articles selected during screening. Any disagreements will be resolved by a third reviewer. We will then conduct the synthesis of available evidence. Results: A preliminary search of “ethical climate” as a term retrieved 131 items in PubMed, 584 items in Web of Science and 628 items in Scopus. A more detailed search strategy is currently under development. The type of study design that will be included are randomized trials, controlled before and after studies and interrupted time series analysis as non-randomized experimental designs. Conclusion: Our findings will help synthesize evidence of effective actions to foster ethical climate as a prerequisite for responsible conduct of research and will give recommendations on the development of possible future interventions.

ethical climate ; organisational climate ; scoping review

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