title: Development of an administrative ethical behaviour scale.
abstract: The aim of this study was to develop an Administrative Ethical Behaviour Scale (AEBS) and to determine whether nurses found their head nurses' behaviours ethical and to reveal head nurses' ethical and unethical administrative behaviour. It was conducted on 264 nurses working in five state hospitals in Trabzon, Turkey. Content validity index of the scale was 0.87, item-to-total correlations ranged from 0.50 to 0.81 and Chronbach Alpha was 0.98. The scale included five subscales, i.e. truthfulness and honesty, liabilities and supremacy of laws, rights and freedom, good human relationships and humanism, justice and equality. Overall, head nurses' behaviour was considered ethical by nurses; however, their behaviour in terms of justice and equality, good human relationships and humanism was not found ethical. Positions, satisfaction with head nurses' behaviour and frequency of contact with them affect nurses' opinions.
authors.affiliation: Karadeniz Teknik University, Trabzon, Turkey. ozturkhavva@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Havva
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Oztürk
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D032781:Codes of Ethics; D005060:Europe; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005610:Freedom; D006783:Hospitals, State; D006806:Human Rights / Q000523:psychology; D006808:Humanism; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations / Q000941:ethics*; D009718:Nurse Administrators / Q000941:ethics*; D009740:Nursing Staff / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D028662:Principle-Based Ethics; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000379:methods*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012919:Social Behavior; D012935:Social Justice; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires / Q000592:standards; D035502:Trust / Q000523:psychology; D014421:Turkey