Innovation is essential to ongoing improvements in quality healthcare, yet healthcare institutions continue to struggle with the challenge of how best to operationalize the multiple commitments to risk minimization, accountability, the defensible use of resources and quality innovative practices. An ideal pathway would be one that adheres to both the ethical values of the institution in which t...

This article organizes and classifies the 18 core concepts. There are nine overarching principles into which the concepts fit: life, liberty, equality, dignity, family as foundation, community, capacity, individualization, and accountability. These in turn reflect three approaches to policy: the Constitutional approach, consisting of the principles of life, liberty, and equality; the Ethical ap...

Within the IS literature there is little discussion on selling software products in general and especially from the ethical point of view. Similarly, within computer ethics, although there is much interest in professionalism and professional codes, in terms of accountability and responsibility, the spotlight tends to play on safety-critical or life-critical systems, rather than on software orie...

OBJECTIVE In health, accountability has since long been acknowledged as a central issue, but it remains an elusive concept. The literature on accountability spans various disciplines and research traditions, with differing interpretations. There has been little transfer of ideas and concepts from other disciplines to public health and global health. In the frame of a study of accountability of ...

Decisions to control pharmaceutical costs can cause conflicts as to what medications are covered. Such conflicts have ethical implications, however implicit, and given this fact, an ethical framework can help address them. In the following commentary, we discuss the more traditional, individual-level ethical considerations likely familiar to most clinicians. We, then, discuss population-level e...

Individual and organizational actions have social consequences that call for the implementation of recommendations of good conduct at multiple levels of granularity. This work focuses on the accountability value, on how to express it, and on the challenges of handling accountability in a computational way, in a system of interacting agents.

Copy is prohibited. INTRODUCTION The purpose of this article is to suggest why knowledge management (KM) research and practice needs an ethics dimension and to identify questions to help develop that ethical dimension. As such, the article is best classified as a discussion rather than as a research paper. Although KM has become an important interdisciplinary area of study both within the domai...

empowerment employee is one of effective techniques to increase employee's productivity and efficient use of the capacity and capabilities of individual and group them in line with organizational goals. the aim of this study is to investigate the relationship of ethical leadership with psychological empowerment with mediating of procedural justice and interactional justice.participants inc...