Journal of Public Management Research ISSN 2377-3294 2015, Vol. 1, No. 1 21 The relationship between Social Capital and Ethics: An Application at Health Sector Ozgur DEMIRTAS Department of Management, Turkish Air Force Academy Kayseri, TURKEY E-mail: demirtasozgur@yahoo.com Abdurrahim EMHAN (Corresponding author) Department of Management, Selahaddin Eyyubi University Diyarbakır, TURKEY E-mail: aemhan@gmail.com Received: May 30, 2015 Accepted: July 17, 2015 Published: August 24, 2015 doi:10.5296/jpmr.v1i1.8019 URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/jpmr.v1i1.8019 Abstract In this study, we examined a relationship between social capital and ethics. For this aim, a questionnaire form, which consists of 35-item, was used out of some demographic variables. The survey was gathered from 339 hospital employees’ who are working at governmental and private hospitals. The results indicated that there was a significant positive relationship between social capital and ethics. In addition we found that nurses reported more scores on ethics, and employees working at private sector reported more ethical scores than government employees. Further, several significant differences have been identified according to some demographic variables. Keywords: Social Capital, Ethics, Health Sector 1. Introduction Ethics has become an important issue among academicians and practitioners due to the ethical scandals such as Enron and Dupont (Demirtas, 2015). Thus, in the organizational context much of the studies have taken into the consideration of ethical concept. As noted by