Overview

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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Author:   Debra R. Comer ,  Gina Vega
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.362kg
ISBN:  

9780765624109

ISBN 10:   0765624109
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   15 March 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"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?"

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