Title: Professional courage in the military: Regulation fit and establishing moral intent
Abstract: Cyclical outbursts of unethical activities from both public and private sectors are strong indicators to government and business leaders that something is askew in current approaches to achieve sustained moral action in the workplace. While leaders often go out of their way to demonstrate that they strive for ethical behavior, the organizational systems and structures meant to insure ethical action are typically regulation-based, with compliance-based processes to drive moral action. These approaches frequently target how to be responsible and vigilant and to avoid negative behaviors, yet it is questionable whether they motivate individuals to act morally when the situation requires professional courage. While organizational processes serve as baseline influencers, individuals are responsible for establishing their internal motivations to engage in ethical behavior as they conduct their professional duties. Assuming this is the case, we wondered how individuals move to establish the moral intent to engage in professional courage in the workplace and how systemic drivers within the organization may serve to promote or curtail movement toward ethical behavior. To address this concern we asked this
Publication Year: 2005
Publication Date: 2005-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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