Abstract:

Many of organization implement code of conduct as an explicit guidance to help employees knowing the standard of ethics from management’s viewpoints, with the aim to gain productivity achieving organization’s goal. The purpose of this paper is to examine the influence of ethics institutionalization on organizational citizenship behavior and to analyze the role of organizational commitment in mediating the impact of ethics institutionalization on organizational citizenship behavior with psychological empowerment as a moderator in one of State Institution in Indonesia. This research will use a quantitative approach with online survey method to 784 respondents which were determined by purposive sampling method. Respondents come from employees of the SocialSecurity Institute who already work at the institution for minimum three years. The results show that ethic institutionalization both explicit and implisit has a positive effect on organizational commitment; and organizational commitment has a positive effect on organizational citizenship behavior. Organizational commitment could mediate and Psychological Empowerment could moderate their positive linkage.