The unethical conduct of practitioners in profit and nonprofit organizations is frequently
revealed in the mass media. Many of those who engage in such conduct had ever spent their
time studying at universities. This issue poses a challenge for universities in fostering a
learning environment enabling students to increase moral awareness in their professional
lives. In this regard, university employees play important roles in providing a moral model.
Thus, research on their ethical attitudes is essential. This study aimed to determine the ethical
attitudes of academic and non-academic staff at a denominational university in Indonesia by
identifying their attitudes towards their institutional code of ethics. Of the 200 distributed
questionnaires, only 103 (50%) returned. Generally, the results suggested the staff had
relatively positive attitudes towards the code. The difference in the attitude between the two
groups was not found. These attitudes indeed do not assure the actual ethical behaviors of the
staff. However, understanding the attitudes can help the institution anticipate any possible
ethical violations from the staff. This article also discusses a range of managerial actions to
create the institution‟s ethical environment and the theoretical implications of this research.