THE IMPACT OF ETHICS ON ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE: THE CASE OF PRIVATE COMMERCIAL BANKS OF BANGLADESH.

The purpose of this article is to examine the impact of ethics on the performance of private commercial banks of Bangladesh. The research attempts to find the correlation between ethics and the performance of private commercial banks of Bangladesh. We used convenience-sampling method for this study. A 20-item questionnaire with 5-point likert-type scale was used for collecting data. Data for this study was collected from 395 employees who were serving in different private banking organizations and were assumed to have sufficient qualifications, knowledge and experience in their field of jobs. Collected data were analyzed by using the principal component analysis (PCA) and regression analysis. The study has revealed six dimensions of employee's ethical behavior based on factor loadings, all significantly correlated with banks' performance. The regression analysis indicates positive correlation of ethical behaviors to performance of banks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]