Moral Risk in a Nursing Home

Øyvind Kvalnes ()
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Øyvind Kvalnes: BI Norwegian Business School

Chapter Chapter 3 in Fallibility at Work, 2017, pp 39-58 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter discusses narratives from a nursing home where the residents express a wish to come closer to social life and be more active. Based on the residents’ answers to inquiries about what they considered to be a good life, the leaders at the home initiated a range of social activities. The intention was to provide the residents with more room for meaningful practices, but some of the activities also increased the risk of harm. Starting from the nursing home narratives, the chapter addresses three principled questions regarding responsibility and risk at work: (1) To what extent do our moral evaluations of past decisions and behavior depend on actual outcomes? (2) What kind of protection against sanctions should be in place for people who take risky decisions at work? (3) What is the role of leaders in cases where either active or passive mistakes from employees lead to bad outcomes? These questions are discussed in the light of the distinction between active and passive mistakes, and the distinction between prescriptive (do good) and proscriptive (do not harm) ethics.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-63318-3_3

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