Debra R. Comer, Gina Vega

Moral Courage in Organizations (eBook, ePUB)

Doing the Right Thing at Work

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The topic of moral courage is typically missing from business ethics instruction and management training. But moral courage is what we need when workplace pressures threaten to compromise our values and principles. Moral Courage in Organizations: Doing the Right Thing at Work, edited by Debra Comer and Gina Vega, underscores for readers the ethical pitfalls they can expect to encounter at work and enhances their ability do what they know is right, despite these organizational pressures. The book highlights the effects of organizational factors on ethical behavior; illustrates exemplary moral courage and lapses of moral courage; explores the skills and information that support those who act with moral courage; and considers how to change organizations to promote moral courage, as well as how to exercise moral courage to change organizations. By giving readers who want to do the right thing guidelines for going about it, Moral Courage in Organizations: Doing the Right Thing at Work is a potent tool to foster more ethical organizational behavior.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. März 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317464389
• Artikelnr.: 42554541

Autorenporträt

Debra R. Comer, Gina Vega

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1. The Organizational Pressures that Make Moral Courage Necessary
1. A Short Primer on Moral Courage
2. "But Everybody's Doing It": Implications of the Cheating Culture for
Moral Courage in Organizations
3. The Personal Ethical Threshold
Part 2. The Faces of Moral Courage
4. How the Mighty Have Fallen
5. For the Greater Good: The Moral Courage of Whistleblowers
6. Faith and Moral Courage: Why a Sense of Calling Matters
7. The Social Entrepreneur: Combining Head and Heart to Find Innovative
Solutions to Local Problems
8. NGO Leaders on the Edge: The Moral Courage to Fight for Human Rights
Part 3. The Skills and Information that Enable Moral Courage
9. Giving Voice to Values: Building Moral Competence
10. Developing Professional Moral Courage: Leadership Lessons from Everyday
Ethical Challenges in Today's Military
11. Stand Up and Be Counted: Legal Protections for Those Who Act with Moral
Courage
Part 4. Changing Organizations with Moral Courage
12. Speaking Truth to Power: The Courageous Organizational Dissenter
13. I Defy with a Little Help from My Friends: Raising an Organization's
Ethical Bar Through a Morally Courageous Coalition
14. The Organizational Context of Moral Courage: Creating Environments that
Account for Dual-Processing Models of Courageous Behavior
Part 5. Integration
15. What Have We Learned about Moral Courage in Organizations?