Special Topic: Organizational Ethics

In this session a health care ethicist defines ethics and moral integrity and leads participants in an exploration of how everyday decision making honors or compromises moral integrity — individual and corporate. The links between institutional integrity, ethical leadership, and trustworthiness will be explored. Upon completion of this session, participants will be able to define ethics, moral agency, and moral integrity, describe how both individuals and institutions develop moral agency and integrity and the consequences of honoring or dishonoring integrity, analyze how an institution's mission, vision and core values influence institutional decision making, behavior and integrity, identify common ethical challenges in the workplace and strategies for resolving these problems, contrast integrity-based and compliance-based organizational ethics programs, describe the hallmarks and challenges of quality institutional ethics programs, distinguish ethics concerns/challenges and related resources from legal, safety/quality, human resources, etc. concerns/challenges, develop strategies for raising ethical awareness within institutions and bringing forward ethical challenges, and utilize systematic processes including a values-based decisionmaking model for resolving organizational ethical challenges.