Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c2011.
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Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction : Why moral courage matters in organizations / Debra R. Comer and Gina Vega — A short primer on moral courage / Al Gini — But everybody’s doing it : implications of the cheating culture for moral courage in organizations / David Callahan and Debra R. Comer — The personal ethical threshold / Debra R. Comer and Gina Vega — How the mighty have fallen / Gina Vega — For the greater good : the moral courage of whistleblowers / Stephen M. Kohn — Faith and moral courage : why a sense of calling matters / G. Jeffrey MacDonald — The social entrepreneur : combining head and heart to find innovative solutions to local problems / Roland E. Kidwell — NGO leaders on the edge : the moral courage to fight for human rights / Judith White — Giving voice to values : building moral competence / Mary C. Gentile — Developing professional moral courage : leadership lessons from everyday ethical challenges in today’s military / Leslie E. Sekerka, Justin D. McCarthy, and Richard P. Bagozzi — Stand up and be counted : legal protections for those who act with moral courage / Judith W. Spain — Speaking truth to power : the courageous organizational dissenter / Bernard F. Matt and Nasrin Shahinpoor — I defy with a little help from my friends : raising an organization’s ethical bar through a morally courageous coalition / Debra R. Comer and Susan D. Baker — The organizational context of moral courage : creating environments that account for dual-processing models of courageous behavior / Dennis J. Moberg — What have we learned about moral courage in organizations? / Gina Vega and Debra R. Comer.
- When pressures in the workplace threaten to compromise personal values and principles, moral courage is necessary to do what is right. Moral Courage in Organizations: Doing the Right Thing at Work, edited by Debra Comer and Gina Vega, underscores the ethical pitfalls that can be encountered at work and provides guidelines for doing the right thing, despite organizational pressures. This book highlights the effects of organizational factors on ethical behavior illustrates exemplary moral courage and lapses of moral courage and considers how to foster change in organizations to promote moral courage, as well as how to exercise the moral courage to change organizations.
Subjects:
- Business ethics.
- Courage.
- Organizational behavior — Moral and ethical aspects.
- Work — Moral and ethical aspects.
- Employees — Conduct of life.
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