Facing Ethical Challenges in the Workplace: Conceptualizing and Measuring Professional Moral Courage

• Published in: Journal of business ethics Vol. 89; no. 4; pp. 565 - 579
• Main Authors: Sekerka, Leslie E., Bagozzi, Richard P., Charnigo, Richard
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Springer 01.11.2009; Springer Netherlands; Springer Nature B.V
• Series: Journal of Business Ethics
• Subjects: Behavior; Business and Management; Business Ethics; Compliance; Conceptualization; Courage; Decision making; Education; Endurance; Ethical behavior; Ethics; Management; Management decisions; Measurement; Moral agency; moral decision-making; Moral judgment; Morality; Morals; Organizational learning; Philosophy; positive ethics; positive organizational scholarship; Private military industry; proactive organizational ethics; professional moral courage; Professionalism; Psychometrics; Quality of Life Research; Studies; Values; Work place; Workplaces; United States > US; proactive organizational ethics; professional moral courage; positive organizational scholarship; moral decision-making; positive ethics

Scholars have shown renewed interest in the construct of courage. Recent studies have explored its theoretical underpinnings and measurement. Yet courage is generally discussed in its broad form to include physical, psychological, and moral features. To understand a more practical form of moral cour...