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The purpose of this study is to investigate ethical climate understandings perceived by the Ministry of Youth and Sports Employees. The ethical climate perceptions of the Ministry employees is at a level of “I agree” and this suggests an adequate level of ethical climate in the Ministry. The ethical climate perceptions of the employees in the 41-45 age group are significantly higher than the 26-30 age group employees. The ethical climate perceptions of the employees with lower level of education and lower reading level are higher compared to those employees with higher level of education. In the ‘independence’ dimension, significant differences were observed between those who read books once a week and those who rarely read books or those who never read books. In this dimension, the ethical climate perceptions of those who rarely read books or those who never read books is significantly higher than those who read books once a week. Again in this dimension, the ethical climate perception of those who never read books is significantly higher than those who read books every two weeks. The Online Journal of Recreation and Sport – January 2017 Volume 6, Issue 1 www.tojras.com Copyright © The Online Journal of Recreation and Sport 41 1.INTRODUCTION This word, derived from the word “ethos” in the Greek language and having the meaning of “character”, has transformed into the word “ethic” in time and has become a subdimension of philosophy, investigating ideal, abstract and moral rules (Acar, 2016; Bute, 2011 Simsek et al. 2011; Aydın, 2006). The concept of ethical climate is a part of overall organization climate that helps to recognize ethical characters of organizations (Demir and Karakus 2015: Yener et al. 2012: Elci and Alpkan, 2009; Martin and Cullen, 2006). After 1844, Auguste Comte indicated ethics as the seventh field of science and expressed his opinion “"Humanity is not to be defined through man, but on the contrary, man through humanity” (Bulbul, 2001). When there is no possibility to remedy the situation of people deprived of basic needs, it was argued that the belief in a just World was maintained by despising the poor (Acar 2015; Furnham and Proctor 1989). Terminologically, the word climate entered the literature as a word of Greek-origin and it has the meanings of “tendency”, “inclination”. It is also used to describe physical phenomena such as heat, pressure and temperature. With the meaning used in business literature, “climate” refers how members of an organization evaluate internal and external environment of the organization (Bute, 2011; Yagmur, 2013). As a result of globalization, today’s business world where competition constantly increases and intensifies has an environment that is hectic and open to constant change. The ultimate goal of enterprises operating in such an environment is to be successful and maintain their presence (Donertas, 2008) One of the two aims of an organization is to serve while the other is the satisfaction of the employees. In case the employees cannot derive satisfaction from their work, being a part of the organization becomes meaningless. Development and proliferation of sports can only be ensured via a healthy settlement, a modernist management and a positive organization climate (Yaman, 2000)., Employees’ perception of the ethical climate of their organization is affected by the organization’s policies, procedures, reward system and formal or informal systems within the organization (Dogan and Kilic 2014). Ethical climate provides guidance that there are shared ideas for what behaviors towards employees would be right and how issues should be handled and solved in moral dilemmas. In other words, ethical climate guides employees on what behaviors are appropriate and supported (Victor and Cullen 1988: Treviño et al. 1998: Demirtas 2014). People tend to perceive the world as a place where everybody gets what they The Online Journal of Recreation and Sport – January 2017 Volume 6, Issue 1 www.tojras.com Copyright © The Online Journal of Recreation and Sport 42 deserve, good things happen for the good they do and bad things happen for the bad they do (Acar, 2015; Hafer and Begue, 2005). While ethical climate helps employees in evaluating their issues and considering various alternatives, it also provides guidance for them to decide about acceptable and non-acceptable behaviors (Barnett & Schubert, 2002). 2. MATERIAL AND METHOD The research population consists of randomly reached 233 people who worked in the central office of the Ministry of Youth and Sports between the years 2015 2016. This study is a diagnostic study and it was conducted by applying a survey to the Ministry employees. In the first part of the survey, demographic information such as age, gender, marital status, work experience, title, educational status of the survey participants as well as questions on whether or not they do physical exercise, how often they read books, what they do in their leisure time, how they define themselves were included. The ethical climate scale that was developed by Cullen, J.B., Parboteeah, K.P. & Bart, V. (2003) was used. The original scale is 9-dimensional however it was seen that the scale consisted of 5 dimensions in the studies conducted by Victor & Cullen, (1988) 2; Wimbush & Shepart, (1994); Peterson, (2002); Vardi, (2011); Ogut & Kaplan, (2011). Yurdakul (2013) adapted the scale to Turkish with the help of linguists through translation-reverse translation. The ethical climate scale developed by Victor and Cullen (1988) was used to assess the ethical climate perceptions of the survey participants of their organization. The original scale is 9-dimensional. However, it was downsized to 5 dimensions in subsequent studies. In the survey, the questions about demographic information are closedended, and the questions about the ethical climate perceptions were arranged as 5-point Likert type scale, one of the interval scales. The values and intervals of the 5-point Likert scale are as follows: Weight 1 Choice I strongly disagree Limits 1.00 1.80, Weight 2 Choice I disagree Limits 1.81 – 2.60, Weight 3 Choice I’m not sure Limits 2.61 – 3.40, Weight 4 Choice I agree Limits 3.41 – 4.20, Weight 5 Choice I strongly agree Limits 4.21 – 5.00. The data obtained in the study were evaluated, using statistical methods in the SPSS 14.0 software package. In research findings and evaluation section, frequency distributions for the demographic characteristics of survey participants, mean and standard deviation values of the questions about the ethical climate perceptions, a reliability analysis to determine whether or not the data is suitable for statistical analysis, a factor analysis to understand how many dimensions the The Online Journal of Recreation and Sport – January 2017 Volume 6, Issue 1 www.tojras.com Copyright © The Online Journal of Recreation and Sport 43 scale consists of, an Independent-Samples T-test to determine whether or not there is a significant difference between two groups in terms of independent variables such as gender, marital status, occupation, a One-Way Anova test to determine whether or not there is a significant difference between more than two groups were included. Reliability Analysis As a result of reliability analysis of the ethical climate scale, which consisted of 26 questions, the Cronbach's Alpha value was found to be 0.897, the Cronbach's Alpha Based on Standardized Items was found to be 0.898, and the N of Items was found to be 26. Since the lowest reliability value is considered as 0.70 in the studies conducted in social sciences, it can be said that 0.897 Cronbach's Alpha value is a good result in terms of internal consistency of the scale used in this study.

INVESTIGATION OF ETHICAL CLIMATE UNDERSTANDINGS PERCEIVED BY THE MINISTRY OF YOUTH AND SPORTS EMPLOYEES