Moral courage and manager‐regret

It has been suggested that moral courage in the workplace supports more robust application of regulatory principles. A workforce with to act on imperative, it is argued, can bolster corporate governance and promote both stable business organisations greater economic stability at large. Research area investigates bases courage, a central implication being businesses should invest ethical training as matter public policy. standard present strength will do morally right thing. From managerial perspective, however, this distorts normative character kind issues managers typically face. Doing thing commonly entails inflicting permissible harms. Such harms, though permissible, be source concern conscientious manager. difficulty for account, then, may expected scenarios which implications manager's action have not fully assessed. In paper, an alternative account evaluation presented incorporates around The basis such found manager-regret. Building foundation, we establish new definition understands defensible requires because those harms likely defended. recognised academic literature intellectual dimension. Furthermore, practice reflect understanding if its benefits policy, particular governance, are realised. thesis takes novel approach topic draws, centrally, work Bernard Williams, Martha Nussbaum Søren Kierkegaard.