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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |44 pages
The Organizational Pressures That Make Moral Courage Necessary
chapter |12 pages
“But Everybody's Doing It”
part |70 pages
The Faces of Moral Courage
chapter |14 pages
The Social Entrepreneur
part |39 pages
The Skills and Information That Enable Moral Courage
chapter |12 pages
Developing Professional Moral Courage
part |54 pages
Changing Organizations with Moral Courage
chapter |17 pages
I Defy with a Little Help from My Friends
chapter |21 pages
The Organizational Context of Moral Courage
part |8 pages
Integration