Cultivating Civility

An optimist's guide for cultivating civility among academic nurses.

Nurse educators yearn to teach in zestful workplaces where faculty and administrators work and play well together. Even when their interactions with professional colleagues are stressful, many still believe that zestful academic workplaces are possible. How can educators bridge the gap when a zestful ideal becomes a stressful reality? Since some report that the quality of their professional rel...

Workplace Civility: A Confucian Approach

Running head: CIVILITY NORMS QUESTIONNAIRE-BRIEF 1 Assessing Workgroup Norms for Civility: The Development of the Civility Norms Questionnaire – Brief

Purpose – This research describes the development and validation of the Civility Norms Questionnaire-Brief (CNQ-B), a 4-item measure designed to assess workgroup climate for civility. Climate for civility is defined as employee perceptions of norms supporting respectful treatment among workgroup members. Design/methodology/approach – Five samples (N = 2,711) of adult employees, including two fr...

Civility/Incivility in the College Classroom

Incivility is any kind of disruptive classroom behavior that shows disrespect or disregard for the instructor and fellowstudents. It can dramatically diminish the effectiveness of a course and cause great stress for the instructor. This section starts with several sites that describe forms of incivility, suggestions for handling it, and current research on incivility. The remaining links provid...

Cultivating Virtue

Ought you to cultivate your own virtue? Various philosophers have argued that there is something suspect about directing one’s ethical attention towards oneself in this way. These arguments can be divided between those that deem aiming at virtue for its own sake to be narcissistic and those that consider aiming at virtue for the sake of good behaviour to involve a kind of doublethink. Underlyin...