ABSTRACT

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.

part |44 pages

The Organizational Pressures That Make Moral Courage Necessary

chapter |12 pages

“But Everybody's Doing It”

Implications of the Cheating Culture for Moral Courage in Organizations

part |70 pages

The Faces of Moral Courage

chapter |15 pages

For the Greater Good

The Moral Courage of Whistleblowers

chapter |13 pages

Faith and Moral Courage

Why a Sense of Calling Matters

chapter |14 pages

The Social Entrepreneur

Combining Head and Heart to Find Innovative Solutions to Local Problems

chapter |13 pages

NGO Leaders on the Edge

The Moral Courage to Fight for Human Rights

part |39 pages

The Skills and Information That Enable Moral Courage

chapter |13 pages

Giving  Voice To Values

Building Moral Competence

chapter |12 pages

Developing Professional Moral Courage

Leadership Lessons from Everyday Ethical Challenges in Today's Military

chapter |12 pages

Stand Up and Be Counted

Legal Protections for Those Who Act with Moral Courage

part |54 pages

Changing Organizations with Moral Courage

chapter |14 pages

Speaking Truth to Power

The Courageous Organizational Dissenter

chapter |17 pages

I Defy with a Little Help from My Friends

Raising an Organization's Ethical Bar Through a Morally Courageous Coalition

chapter |21 pages

The Organizational Context of Moral Courage

Creating Environments That Account for Dual-Processing Models of Courageous Behavior