Understanding Responses to Ethical Leadership

Understanding Health Professional Responses to Service Disinvestment: A Qualitative Study

Background Disinvestment from inefficient health services may be a potential solution to rising healthcare costs, but there has been poor uptake of disinvestment recommendations. This Australian study aims to understand how health professionals react when confronted with a plan to disinvest from a health service they previously provided to their patients.   Methods This ...

Ethical Leadership for Psychiatry

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A Model for Ethical Leadership

The purpose in devising a “model” for ethical leadership is two fold. First, it breaks the idea of leadership into components that can be examined and analyzed. Second, it connects leadership as a concept to leadership as an activity. The question of ethical value arises in the midst of action and as a component of selection among alternatives. The following model is based on several assumption...

Someone to Look Up To: Executive–Follower Ethical Reasoning and Perceptions of Ethical Leadership

Understanding ethical closure

The paper addresses the formation of moral consciousness in organizations. In particular, it focus to what extent and how organizational arrangements encourage and/or prohibit the development and exercise of moral judgement among newspaper professionals. The paper draws empirically from a case study of a Swedish evening newspaper, and from interviews with professionals from various kinds of med...