Being good, doing good: The role of honesty and integrity virtue of moral courage for health

2021 ◽  
pp. 114494
Author(s):  
Dorota Weziak-Bialowolska ◽  
Piotr Bialowolski ◽  
Ryan M. Niemiec
Keyword(s):  
Moral Courage

scholarly journals Audit committee – internal audit interaction and moral courage

2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (4/5) ◽  
pp. 403-433 ◽  
Author(s):  
Imen Khelil ◽  
Khaled Hussainey ◽  
Hedi Noubbigh
Keyword(s):  
Audit Committee ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Internal Audit ◽  
Moral Courage ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Second Stage ◽  
Internal Audit Function ◽  
Mixed Approach ◽  
Positive Effect

Purpose This paper aims to offer empirical evidence about the effect of the interaction between the audit committee and the internal audit function (IAF) on the moral courage of the chief audit executive (CAE). Design/methodology/approach A mixed approach was followed. In the first stage, questionnaires were sent to CAEs of 60 listed, financial and non-financial Tunisian companies. To enhance the depth of the analysis, in the second stage, semi-directed interviews with 22 CAEs from listed financial and non-financial Tunisian companies were performed. Findings This paper found that the existence of private access to the audit committee has a positive effect on the moral courage of the CAE. The number of meetings between the audit committee and the CAE, the examination of internal audit programmes and results together with the contribution of the audit committee to the appointment and dismissal of the CAE do not show a significant link with the moral courage of the CAE. It also found an insignificant relationship between the audit committee’s examination of interaction between management and the IAF and the moral courage of the CAE. Originality/value To the best of the authors' knowledge, this paper fills one of the major research gaps in the auditing literature by demonstrating the critical role of audit committee–internal audit interaction in promoting the CAE’s moral courage to behave ethically.

scholarly journals Measuring nurses’ moral courage: an explorative study

2021 ◽  
pp. 096973302110032
Author(s):  
Kasper Jean-Pierre Konings ◽  
Chris Gastmans ◽  
Olivia Hanneli Numminen ◽  
Roelant Claerhout ◽  
Glenn Aerts ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Relationship ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Moral Courage ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
Dutch Translation ◽  
Ethical Approval ◽  
Socio Demographic Factors ◽  
The University

Background: The 21-item Nurses’ Moral Courage Scale was developed and validated in 2018 in Finland with the purpose of measuring moral courage among nurses. Objectives: The objective of this study was to make a Dutch translation of the Nurses’ Moral Courage Scale to describe the level of nurses’ self-assessed moral courage and associated socio-demographic factors in Flanders, Belgium. Research design: A forward–backward translation method was applied to translate the English Nurses’ Moral Courage Scale to Dutch, and a pilot study was conducted to improve readability and understandability. A non-experimental, descriptive cross-sectional exploratory design was used to conduct a survey. Descriptive analysis was used. Participants: The data were collected from a convenience sample of 559 nurses from two hospitals in Flanders. Ethical considerations: Ethical approval was obtained from the university ethics committee, permission to conduct the study was obtained from the participating hospitals. Participants received a guide letter and gave their informed consent. Findings: The readability and understandability of the Dutch Nurses’ Moral Courage Scale were positively evaluated, and the scale revealed a good level of internal consistency for the total scale (α = .914) and all subscales. Nurses’ mean score of the 21-item Nurses’ Moral Courage Scale was 3.77 (standard deviation = 0.537). The total Nurses’ Moral Courage Scale score was associated with age (p < .001), experience (p < .001), professional function (p = .002), level of education (p = .002) and personal interest (p < .001). Discussion and Conclusion: The Nurses’ Moral Courage Scale was successfully translated to Dutch. The Flemish nurses perceived themselves as morally courageous, especially when they were in a direct interpersonal relationship with their patients. Acting courageously in ethical dilemmas that involved other actors or organizations appeared to be more challenging. The results strongly suggest the important role of education and ethical leadership in developing and supporting this essential virtue in nursing practice.

Employee–organisation connectedness and ethical behaviour: the mediating role of moral courage

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mario Fernando ◽  
Shahriar Akter ◽  
Ruwan J. Bandara
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Contract ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Critical Factor ◽  
Theoretical Implication ◽  
Psychological Contracts ◽  
Moral Courage ◽  
Ethical Behaviour ◽  
Work Organisation ◽  
Content Type

PurposeHow employees connect with their work organisation and how it may play a role in their moral courage and ethical behaviour remain under-explored. This study, using Psychological Contract Theory, aims to explore how employee–organisation connectedness influences employees' moral courage and ethical behaviour.Design/methodology/approachThe hypotheses were tested using Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM) on data collected through a questionnaire survey from 212 Australian healthcare professionals.FindingsEmployee connectedness with their work organisations showed a significant and direct impact on ethical behaviour. Along with moral courage, connectedness explained over half of the variance in ethical behaviour. Furthermore, moral courage partially mediated the effect of employee connectedness on ethical behaviour.Research limitations/implicationsThe overall theoretical implication of this study is that psychological contracts between employees and their organisations operationalised through employee–organisation connectedness can explain the role of moral courage in ethical behaviour.Practical implicationsWith increasing borderless management of organisations, organisational connectedness can be a critical factor in developing employees' moral courage and ethical behaviour within organisations. Socialisation interventions can be useful to promote employee–organisation connectedness.Originality/valueThe study developed a higher-order connectedness model and validated it with PLS-SEM. The study provides novel empirical evidence on the relationships between employee–organisation connectedness, moral courage and ethical behaviour.

Authentic leader and internal whistleblowers: testing a dual mediation mechanism

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rizqa Anita ◽  
Muhammad Rasyid Abdillah ◽  
Nor Balkish Zakaria
Keyword(s):  
Authentic Leadership ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Moral Courage ◽  
Partial Least Square ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Controlled Motivation

Purpose This study aims to extend the understanding of the role of authentic leadership in encouraging subordinates to become internal whistleblowers. The current study aims to seek whether authentic leadership can encourage internal whistleblowing (IW) through employee controlled motivation for IW and moral courage. Design/methodology/approach The samples of this study were 221 employees working at 26 government organizations in one of the provinces located on Sumatera Island, Indonesia. Based on the cross-sectional survey method, this study used partial least square-structural equation modeling analysis with SmartPLS 3 software to test the hypotheses. Findings The result revealed that employee controlled motivation for whistleblowing and moral courage significantly mediates the effect of authentic leadership toward IW. This result also indicates that the two mediating variables in this study fully mediate the effect of authentic leadership toward IW. Practical implications This study highlights the critical role played by leaders in encouraging subordinates to IW in the workplace. The role of an authentic leader will have positively affected enhancing IW by employees, which has significant implications for the organization that particularly in manage organization wrongdoing in terms of eliminating or preventing unethical practice. Originality/value Theoretically, the current study extends the understanding of the mechanism underlying the relationship between authentic leadership and IW. This study proposes employee controlled motivation for IW and moral courage as the new mediator variables to explain how and why authentic leadership may encourage IW. Empirically, the current study chooses the Indonesian Government as a context that rarely conducts in the prior study.

scholarly journals Standing-up against moral violations: The predicting role of attribution, kinship, and severity.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
David F Urschler ◽  
Peter Fischer ◽  
Thomas Kessler
Keyword(s):  
Moral Courage ◽  
Responsibility Attributions ◽  
Moral Principles ◽  
Standing Up ◽  
Willingness To Intervene ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Perceived Costs

Witnesses of moral violations stand up for their moral principles, despite facing substantial costs for intervening. Notwithstanding its importance, little is known whether responsibility attributions and the relation between the victim and a witness (i.e., kinship) have different effects on the intention to intervene in situations of different severity (e.g., moral courage situations). We predict an interaction between the situation’s severity and the victims’ responsibility for their plight. In less-severe situations, witnesses would be less willing to help when they perceive the victim to be responsible for their plight. However, those who are not seen as responsible would receive more help. For more-severe situations, responsibility is predicted to have no effect. Opposite effects are predicted for the relationship between the helper and the victim. We further predict that perceived costs for helping mediates witnesses’ willingness to intervene. Two studies showed that people are more willing to help individuals who are perceived as being innocent in their plight, but only in less-severe situations. In more-severe situations, people’s willingness to intervene increases, regardless of responsibility attributions. We did not observe effects for kinship. Moreover, we provide partial evidence that witnesses of more-severe situations indeed accept higher costs for intervention.

Moral Injury in Social Work: Responses, Prevention, and Advocacy

2021 ◽  
pp. 104438942110510
Author(s):  
Frederic G. Reamer
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Injury Prevention ◽  
Restorative Justice ◽  
Moral Courage ◽  
Moral Injury ◽  
Prevention Strategies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Essential Components ◽  
The Impact

Throughout social work’s history, some practitioners and their employing organizations have caused harm. This article explores the concept of moral injury and its relevance to the social work profession. The author explores essential components of a meaningful response to moral injury in social work that simultaneously acknowledges the impact of moral injury on individual victims and addresses the need for structural reform. The author discusses the nature and causes of moral injury, prevention strategies (including the need for practitioner self-care and organizational and community advocacy), the role of apology, restorative justice, and moral courage.

Keynote Address to the International Seminar on Malik Bennabi

1992 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 421-424
Author(s):  
Anwar Ibrahim
Keyword(s):  
Vital Sign ◽  
Moral Courage ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Muslim World ◽  
International Seminar ◽  
Keynote Address ◽  
Personal Meanings ◽  
Dominant Theme

The dominant theme me comes across in Bennabi’s writings is how essentialit is to cultivate ideas. He argued that proficiency and efficacy in nurturingideas is a vital sign of intellectual and cultural development. In elaboratingthe role of ideas in the development of civilization, he went to the extentof saying that a civilization ptospers only by the depth of its guiding ideas.I am in accord with Shaykh Diraz of al Azhar when, writing in his prefaceto Bennabi’s book The Qur’anic Phenomena, he praised him for the =titudeof his judgment, the zeal of his conviction, the precision of his terminology,and the beauty of his style. Apart from their profound intellectual implications,the pronouncements of Bennabi caw deep personal meanings for me.These attributes of Bennabi’s writings make him one of the most eruditeintellectuals of the Muslim world. Moreover, what I discern in these attributesis that they rightly portray him in his totality. To me he is not an intellectualor a recluse, simply captivated by the bliss of his own awakening and withoutan organic link with his faith. Most assuredly, his pen symbolizes his faith, hisconvictions, and his ideological strategy. More than anything else, it serves asa constant reminder of the inevitability of the inner struggle for both personaland collective evolution.Civilizations do not become great, acquire power, or wane by some mysteriousflux of nature. A civilization is the translation of ideas into intellectual capacityand material means to organize one’s environment. Ideas make the practiceof power possible. Ideas devise the practical tools for living in the world.And ideas question whether we have attained our goal or failed our potential.Bennabi tells us that those who do not have the moral courage to grasp theguiding ideas of their civilization have not only the repetition of history buttheir irrelevance to the mamh of time as their future. The Qur’an, the raisond’etre of the ummah, is not a mere invitation; it is the imperative to think and ...

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