Based on Vision 2020, Malaysia targeted to be a developed nation by the year 2020. The fourth challenge of the vision being mentioned was to build up the society with moral and ethical values embedded with strong religious belief and a sense of spirituality. Public sector therefore has been recognized as the main engine in realizing the vision and overcome the challenges. In contrary, for the recent years civil servants were heavily subjected to criticisms as their work ethics very often associated with poor performance. Therefore, this study is intended to look at the presence of ethical elements and the extent of its relationship on work performance. This study has been carried out at one of government agencies, namely Johor Land Office. Data is collected through questionnaires among the support group 1 and 2 of Johor Land Office. The researcher examines the relationships of Ethical Leadership (IV 1) and Awareness on Codes of Ethics (IV 2) towards Work Performance (DV). The Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) has been used to ease and systemize the data analysis process. Based on the result of statistical analysis, the respondents signified that the Ethical Leadership (IV 1) and Awareness on Codes of Ethics (IV 2) did have association with Work Performance. The findings show that the implementation of the Code of ethics alone does not help in increasing the employees’ ethical behavior without active engagement on its compliance in the organization. The research suggested that successful Code of Ethics in influencing employees’ ethical behavior are influence by employees’ awareness on the Code of Ethics, employer engagement and common practices of Code of Ethics in the organization. It is hope that the finding of this research can contribute to a new and bigger discovery on the enforcement of the Code of Ethics in the organization.
