"An excellent volume on the moral courage needed in organizational life." (*)

The topic of moral courage is typically missing from business ethics instruction and management training. But moral courage is what is needed when workplace pressures threaten to compromise values and principles.

Moral Courage in Organizations: Doing the Right Thing at Work underscores the ethical pitfalls that one can expect to encounter at work and enhances one's ability to do the right thing, despite these organizational pitfalls. The book highlights the effects of organizational factors on ethical behavior; illustrates exemplary moral courage and lapses of moral courage; explores the skills and information that support those who act with moral courage; and considers how to change organizations to promote moral courage, as well as how to exercise moral courage to change organizations.

This book is a potent tool to foster more ethical organizational behavior by giving readers guidelines for moral courage.

Endorsements:
"In a society that increasingly questions the morality of organizations, Comer and Vega's book provides scholars with an excellent volume on the moral courage needed in organizational life. I highly recommend it." — Robert A. Giacalone, Temple University (*)

“Well suited as a supplemental text for courses in ethics, morality, principled leadership, and related courses, this well-edited and eclectic text is a worthwhile read. In addition to students benefiting from individual chapters as homework assignments for in-class dialogue and debate, I also easily can envision instructors and ethics workshop trainers applying selected sections as provocative in-session discussion material. With an easy-on-the-wallet price point for both e-text and paper versions, I plan to use it in my graduate and undergraduate business ethics courses. Nearly every chapter will serve to clarify and enrich readers’ understanding of this all-too-rare ‘moral courage’ phenomenon. Offering diverse contexts, compelling anecdotes, theoretical angles, and a useful measurement tool, I believe most readers of this book likely will arrive at conclusions similar to mine—that (a) each of us would be more fulfilled if we acted with moral courage, (b) organizations which embrace a culture epitomized by morally courageous action will be more sustainable, and (c) our world—so powerfully influenced by organizations’ actions—would be a better and more civil place.” — Journal of Business Ethics

"A joy to read and study. Comer and Vega have collected, organized, and edited a group of essays written by several prominent contributors on an important and timely topic that is often overlooked in discussions on business ethics." — from the Foreword by Moses Pava, Yeshiva University