Professional Moral Courage to Combat Ethical Challenges in the Workplace

Ekta Sharma

International Journal of Development and Conflict, 2018, vol. 8, issue 1, 31-45

Abstract: "Ethics" has been considered one of the most important and desired professional competence amongst the Workforce. The organizations prefer employees who have courage to deal with ethical issues. But unfortunately, the scams and scandals across the Globe is the loud evidence of lack of Professional moral courage (PMC) amongst employees. The lack of PMC causes moral distress due to value-conflict, impacting the employee's efficiency. The current paper intends to analyze the validity of the Professional Moral Courage scale in the Indian context and to identify the Professional Moral Courage of the Indian professionals and also the impact of Individual's Personality, age, gender and the type of organization on Professional Moral Courage. The findings reveal that the personality has impact on professional moral courage and hence to enhance it, the interventions to modify personality aspects like 'openness' is the key. The study is the first research on 'Professional Moral courage' in Indian context.

Keywords: Ethics; moral agents; moral values; goals; personality; professional moral courage; value conflict. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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