The moral dimension of organizational culture

Waters, James A.; Bird, Frederick

doi:10.1007/bf00382944

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“…When an individual faces and recognizes an ethical dilemma and tries to find a solution to the problem, ethical organizational culture is one such context that can at its best provide clear norms and support that help in these complex ethical decision-making situations. Vice versa, if the organizational culture lacks a well-defined set of ethical standards, it can be a key source of stress (Ulrich et al, 2007; ethical guidelines or little possibility to discuss ethical issues with others, this discrepancy between situational demands and personal resources can create stress (Waters & Bird, 1987).…”

Section: Ethical Culture As a Context For Well-beingmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Associations between Ethical Organizational Culture, Burnout, and Engagement: A Multilevel Study

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Section: Ethical Culture As a Context For Well-beingmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Associations between Ethical Organizational Culture, Burnout, and Engagement: A Multilevel Study

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“…Moral stress is applied to different kinds of professions by Waters et al (1987) as organisational research. They demonstrate how managers risk ending up in moral conflicts in situations where they would like to act according to their conscience on a moral decision, but the costs that action would entail are high.…”

Section: Moral Stressmentioning

confidence: 99%

Moral stress in teaching practice

Colnerud

2014

Teachers and Teaching

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The purpose of this article is to study whether moral stress is a phenomenon relevant to teaching practice and which may make a significant contribution to understanding why teachers repeatedly reported feeling burdened by work. Moral stress can be caused by acting in conflict with one's own conscience, e.g. when one knows the right thing to do but institutional constraints make it difficult to act in a way that is consistent with one's morals.The method used in this study is critical incident technique focusing ethical dilemmas in teaching. The findings add a phenomenon to previous research of moral stress in other professions; moral stress can be caused not only by external regulations, but also by internal moral imperatives in conflict with one another.

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“…We used Activity-Based Budgeting (Hansen, Otley, & Van der Stede, 2003;Brimson & Antos, 1999;Bunce, Fraser, & Woodcock, 1995;Hansen, 2011) as a tool for an initial analysis of the issue. Aware that other attempts to integrate ethical values into business processes have been made in some research concerning ethical culture (Ferrell, Fraederic, & Ferrell, 2011;Waters & Bird, 1987;Grojean et al, 2004;Adam & Rachman-Moore, 2004;Valentine & Barnett, 2003) and strategic planning (Robin & Reindenbach, 1987;Guerrette, 1988;Hosmer, 1994;Rampersad, 2003;Bonn & Fisher, 2005;Ferrell, Fraedich, & Ferrell, 2011), Activity-Based Budgeting allows managers to have a detailed plan of business processes, highlighting their single components that encompass several aspects of actions for a certain period of time (e.g. the inputs, the resources and number of employees, the workload and outputs of processes).…”

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A Ten-Step Model for Solving Ethical Dilemmas

Santosuosso

2016

IJBM

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This paper suggests a ten-step model for solving ethical dilemmas taking into account a wide spectrum of ethical values. The model has a prescriptive content that should help decision-makers to find a solution to ethical dilemmas according to the dictates suggested by moral obligation. For each step of the model, different types of simplification procedures are used in order to guide the decision-maker progressively toward a satisfactory solution. We begin with a discussion of the main characteristics that the model should possess. The paper then gives a detailed description of the single steps of the model. Lastly, a case study was analysed.

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The moral dimension of organizational culture

Cited by 97 publications

References 2 publications

The Associations between Ethical Organizational Culture, Burnout, and Engagement: A Multilevel Study

The Associations between Ethical Organizational Culture, Burnout, and Engagement: A Multilevel Study

Moral stress in teaching practice

A Ten-Step Model for Solving Ethical Dilemmas

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