Moral Management Research Articles

Concerts and Cures at the Crichton Royal Institution, 1840–1860

ABSTRACT The Crichton Royal Institution in Dumfries, founded in 1839, was renowned for its programme of educational and recreative activities, firmly part of the system of ‘moral management’ embedded by its founding physician, W. A. F. Browne. Music played a key part in this system, with a series of concerts at the core. This article summarizes Browne’s approach to music as a therapeutic agent before examining the rich body of extant concert programmes and associated material. It draws out key elements such as the inclusion of sacred music, early music, Scottish repertory, and music for education, using these to frame a close study of a defined musical community. Unlike examples of music used in English asylums, Browne’s use of ‘national’ music (namely Scottish traditional music) represents the application of a specific musical repertory in a way that directly linked it to health benefits.

An ethical leadership assessment center pilot: Assessing and developing moral person and moral manager dimensions

AbstractEthical leaders are those who exemplify moral behavior personally, as well as those who facilitate follower ethical behavior. Although recent attention has been given to the ethical leadership construct, there remains a lack of innovation regarding the assessment and development of ethical leaders in organizations. To address these issues, a pilot study was conducted to examine the convergent validity of an ethical leadership assessment center, as well as the efficacy of using assessment center feedback to foster ethical leadership. Assessees completed a battery of pre tests, a virtual business simulation with a novel exercise, and a set of post tests. Half of the assessees were randomly assigned to a feedback condition, whereas the other half did not receive feedback until after the post tests were completed. Due to low statistical power, quantitative results were inconclusive. Nevertheless, qualitative insights were gained that point to implications for validating assessment center methodologies when assessing and developing ethical leadership.

Mediating Effect of Organizational Virtuousness in Ethical Leadership and Organizational Citizenship Behavior Relationship: A Study of Higher Education Sector in Pakistan

With increased commercial crimes, work ethic, and ethical leadership have gained popularity among management researchers, focusing on the creation of an ethical climate and transferring managers from moral persons to moral managers who have the ability to shape the pro-social behavior of followers. The current study investigated the moderating role of organizational virtuousness in ethical leadership and organizational citizenship behavior relationship of faculty members of universities/degree awarding institutes in the province of Punjab, Pakistan. Using a cross-sectional design, 385 randomly selected faculty members of universities completed a self-administered survey questionnaire. The findings of the study support our assumptions that ethical leadership creates a virtuous organizational culture and fosters organizational citizenship behavior. Further, the mediating role of organizational virtuousness in fostering organizational citizenship behavior due to ethical leadership was also proved in the higher education sector in the province of Punjab, Pakistan. We have also discussed the implications of the study as well as the directions for further research.

Buddhist environmental ethics and climate change

AbstractPhilosophically, Buddhist ethics would appear to be well‐prepared for the climate change age. Buddhists receive encouragement to extend compassion and nonharm throughout a universe that is utterly interconnected across time and space. Such positive extensions result in a strength of the tradition involving some welcome positive treatment of nonhuman animals. However, looking closely in terms of practical outcomes reveals some serious limitations regarding Buddhist environmental ethics. Not all animals receive ethical value and care, for instance, and the tradition provides a historically unstable platform for vegetarianism despite some popular beliefs to the contrary. Even worse, perceived sentience is required to receive substantial Buddhist moral value, in most cases leaving plants, stones, and bodies of water without ecological respect. Since managing climate change precisely includes the moral management of plants, stones, and bodies of water, our ethics regarding these entities must be clear. Buddhist environmental ethics, though, today provide us with few tools for developing such ethics for entities considered by Buddhism to be insentient, although perhaps views are changing.

Strategies for Success in Business Administration: Navigating the Complex Landscape of Corporate Management

This study explores diverse strategies for fulfillment in business administration, emphasizing key principles which include strategic management, innovation, powerful communication, and ethical considerations. It delves into the interconnected nature of these techniques, addressing their relevance in navigating the complexities of corporate management. The findings highlight the significance of strategic management in aligning organizational desires and the catalyzing position of open innovation paradigms. Effective conversation emerges as pivotal for shaping organizational subculture, even as moral management will become imperative in choice-making procedures. The examine underscores the importance of adaptability, skills management, and generation integration in fostering organizational resilience and competitiveness. Ultimately, the holistic implementation of those strategies serves as a roadmap for experts and organizational leaders, guiding them towards sustained success in the dynamic and challenging panorama of commercial enterprise administration.

KNOWLEDGE AS A SOURCE OF ENTERPRISE INTELLECTUALISATION

The purpose. The aim of scientific research is to deepen the methodological foundation regarding the essence of knowledge as a source of the enterprise intellectualization and the innovative enterprise intellectual potential effective use ensuring priority. Methodology. The methodological basis of the study consists of: knowledge-based economy theories; entrepreneurship, institutionalism; microeconomic theory of knowledge management; knowledge transformation theories, obtaining new knowledge; of self-learning organization concept. General scientific and formal-logical methods of comparison, analysis, synthesis, abstraction, as well as historical, genetic, linguistic, hermeneutic and heuristic research methods are used. Results. The article is devoted to the justification of the theoretical and methodological principles regarding the essence, place and role of knowledge as the enterprise intellectualization source and the priority of ensuring the innovative enterprises intellectual potential effective use in order to develop their competitive advantages in the knowledge-based economy paradigm. The main stages that change the role of knowledge in society are characterized. Emphasis is placed on the fact that the enterprise can face active competition only if the intellectual component of its resource portfolio is improved. In this context, the information revolution caused new requirements for economic knowledge, and not so much for their volume, but for quality, that reflects the imperatives of progressive, highly moral management. Accordingly, the “center of gravity” of the modern reproduction process objectively shifts from the sphere of market economic transactions to the knowledge reproduction economic space of a high moral and creative level. Modern approaches to understanding information and knowledge are considered, and their comprehensive characteristics are given. The relationship between the categories “data”, “information” and “knowledge” is studied. A new essence understanding of categories “knowledge” and “enterprise intellectualization” is proposed. The knowledge types in the context of epistemological approach are singled out. Scientific novelty. The methodological knowledge essence basis is developed in the work. A classification of knowledge is proposed for better explicit and hidden knowledge management effectiveness differentiation and increasing in the context of innovative development is proposed. Practical significance of the obtained results. The author's developments and recommendations can be used for the purpose of managing the enterprise intellectual potential in order to increase the economic added value due to the generation of organizational knowledge.

Integrating Moral Personhood and Moral Management: A Confucian Approach to Ethical Leadership

Integrating Moral Personhood and Moral Management: A Confucian Approach to Ethical Leadership

О ПРАКТИЧЕСКИХ ПУТЯХ ПРЕОДОЛЕНИЯ МОРАЛЬНОЙ АНОМИИ В СОВРЕМЕННЫХ КИТАЙСКИХ ОБЩЕСТВЕННЫХ ОРГАНИЗАЦИЯХ

The pursuit of personal gain in the name of the public good is a typical characteristic feature of the moral anomie of public organizations (NGOs) in China. The root cause lies in the insufficient development of the culture of public welfare, weak self-restraint of public organizations and weak government supervision. The moral management of public organizations in modern China should not only emphasize the recognition of the value of members of public organizations for the purposes of public welfare of public organizations, improve the provision of an ethical system for public organizations and increase the cultivation of individual morality of members of public organizations, but also it is necessary to strengthen systemic punishments and rewards for the socially charitable behavior of social organizations and use rigidity settlement systems, deterrence and direction of social and charitable behavior of social organizations. Speaking in a substantive way, it is necessary to foster a culture of public welfare in public organizations and promote leadership orientation to the values of public welfare, combining institutional punishments and incentives to promote the management of the behavior of public organizations in the field of public welfare, strengthen government supervision and promote the management of the anomie of public welfare of public organizations, thereby contributing to the general promotion of overcoming the anomie in the field of public welfare of public organizations, as well as general advancement in other directions.

Conceptualizing ethical leadership in Eastern cultural context and examining its impact on hotel employees’ voice behavior

ABSTRACT This study aimed to conceptualize ethical leadership (EL) in a hospitality context, grounded in Eastern philosophical foundation. Four studies consisting of both qualitative and quantitative were conducted, involving 732 hotel employees from 11 hotels. Study one used literature review, in-depth interviews, and focus group discussion to conceptualize ethical leadership as a four-dimensional construct, including moral person, employee care, moral management, and social responsibility. Three empirical studies were employed (study 2–4) to examine the psychometric properties of the proposed scale, including content, convergent, discriminant, concurrent and nomological validity. A nomological framework was examined, in which ethical leadership was proposed to influence employee voice behavior via employee psychological safety and leader-member exchange. This study enriches ethical leadership literature and provides a reliable and valid measuring tool for hospitality scholars interested in studying leadership in Eastern cultures. It also provides insights for hotel managers to develop and enhance ethical leadership skills.

Strengthening Equity and Inclusion in Urban Greenspace: Interrogating the Moral Management & Policing of 2SLGBTQ+ Communities in Toronto Parks.

There is growing recognition that greenspace provides invaluable benefits to health and wellbeing, and is essential infrastructure for promoting both social and environmental sustainability in urban settings. This paper contributes towards efforts to build 'just' and equitable urban sustainability, and more specifically greenspace management, by drawing attention to hostility and exclusion experienced by two-spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, genderqueer, pansexual, transsexual, intersex and gender-variant (2SLGBTQ+) park occupants. There is evidence that access to greenspace is inequitable-despite ongoing media accounts of targeted violence and discriminatory police patrolling of 2SLGBTQ+ communities in urban parks, this population has not received adequate research attention. This paper examines systemic barriers that impede urban greenspace access among 2SLGBTQ+ communities, including how the threat of violence in greenspace limits opportunities for accessing benefits associated with naturalized settings. These themes are explored within the context of the City of Toronto, Canada. Our mixed-method approach draws upon key informant interviews, key document content analysis, and ground-truthing. Our findings reveal how queer corporeality, kinship and love subvert deeply entrenched heteronormative social values and understandings of sexuality, partnership, gender, and use of public space, challenging institutional understandings of morality and daily life. The paper concludes by reflecting on the state of 2SLGBTQ+ communities' relationships to greenspace, and potential ways forward in building greater inclusivity into the social fabric of park design and management.

Correlation of human capital sustainability leadership style and resilience of the managers in airline operations group of an AIRLINE Company

correlation of human capital sustainability leadership style and resilience of the managers in airline operations group of an AIRLINE Company

Music as Therapy for the ‘exceptionally wealthy’ at the Nineteenth-Century Ticehurst Asylum

AbstractMusic was widely used within lunatic asylums in nineteenth-century England as part of the ‘moral management’ of patients via entertainment and occupation. The asylum at Ticehurst stood apart on account of its patient body, drawn from the upper classes of society. Documents relating to music at Ticehurst shed new light on the place of music within mental health treatment in the nineteenth century, and particularly on the perceived role of music in understanding the function of the brain in listening, emotions and the intellect. The main body of the article draws on the Ticehurst archives together with patient accounts of their musical experiences to investigate the ways in which music was used at the asylum. The final part takes as its focus an article published by the asylum’s manager and medical officer, Herbert Hayes Newington, in which the appreciation of music by patients comes under scrutiny.

SOCIOEMOTIONAL EFFECT AND MORAL DEVELOPMENT ON LEARNING OUTCOMES OF INFORMATICS MANAGEMENT STUDENTS AMIK LAMAPPAPOLEONRO SOPPENG

This study aims to describe and influence sosioemosi and moral development of the students' learning achievement in information management Amik Lamappapoleonro. The study was ex-post facto nature of causality. Subjects in this study were students information management Amik Lamappapoleonro year 2019/2020 were taken using the Proportional stratified random sampling. Data were analyzed with descriptive statistics and path analysis (path anlysis). Research results show that: (1) Most of the students of information management in Amik Lamappapoleonro have: self-concept and category of being, self-esteem with the high category, with the category of high moral, cognitive learning achievement with low category, and affective with high category, (2) Moral students information management category is very high, (3) The cognitive learning achievement of information management students are in the medium category.

Ekologi dan Kerusakan Lingkungan dalam Persepektif Al-Qur’an

Ecosystem is an overall unified arrangement of elements of the environment that influence each other in creating balance, order and sustainability. The discourse on environmental conservation has become an actual issue in the midst of the threat of a global crisis as a consequence of disasters, climate change, global warming, erratic seasonal changes, decreased quality of life and the threat of destruction of the earth. This condition triggers the anxiety and worry of mankind about the extinction of the earth. This study will answer how the Koran talks about the environment and its impact on human life. The design of this research is a qualitative type of literature. The data collection technique is the documentation of collecting environmental damage verses. The analysis uses a comparative interpretive, namely examining verses on environmental damage, comparing them, then concluding them through inductive thinking. The results of the study prove that environmental damage is caused by polytheists, hypocrites, greedy and selfish people. Solutions for strengthening monotheism, awareness of environmental law, and moral natural resource management.

Ethicality neutralization and amplification: a multilevel study of ethical leadership and unethical pro-organizational behavior

PurposeThis study examines how ethical leadership (EL) influences followers' willingness to conduct unethical pro-organizational behavior (UPB) via reciprocity beliefs at the individual level and political climate at the group level.Design/methodology/approachTwo-point survey data were collected from 423 Chinese followers from 81 groups, and multilevel structural equation modeling was conducted to test the hypotheses.FindingsIndividual-level EL unintentionally increases follower UPB willingness by fostering reciprocity beliefs, while group-level EL intentionally reduces follower UPB willingness by controlling the political climate. The political climate plays both a cross-level moderated mediation role and a mediated moderation role between EL and UPB.Practical implicationsWhen seeking to decrease followers' intention to conduct UPB, managers are advised to use individual-level EL with care when the focus is on reciprocity, and they should consider using group-level EL more when the focus is on controlling political climate.Originality/valueThe study supports two distinct mediating mechanisms by examining individual-level EL (as a moral person) vs group-level EL (as a moral manager) on UPB, thereby revealing the reason for the mixed effects of EL on UPB.

Ethical leadership and employee information security policy (ISP) violation: exploring dual-mediation paths

PurposeA growing number of studies have investigated the effect of ethical leadership on behavioral outcome of employees. However, considering the important role of ethics in IS security, the security literature lacks a theoretical and empirical investigation of the relationship between ethical leadership and employees' security behavior, such as information security policy (ISP) violation. Drawing on social learning and social exchange theories, this paper empirically tests the impact of ethical leadership on employees' ISP violation intention through both information security climate (i.e. from a moral manager's perspective) and affective commitment (i.e. from a moral person's perspective).Design/methodology/approachThe research was developed based on social learning theory and social exchange theory. To measure the variables in the model, the authors used and adapted measurement items from previous studies. The authors conducted a scenario-based survey with 339 valid responses to test and validate the research model.FindingsResults indicated that information security climate fully mediates the relationship between ethical leadership and ISP violation intention. The authors also found that information security climate enhances the negative effect of affective commitment on ISP violation intention.Originality/valueThis research contributes to the literature of information security by introducing the role of ethical leadership and integrating two theories into our research model. This study also calls attention to how information security climate and affective commitment mediate the relationship between ethical leadership and employees' ISP violation intention. The theory-driven study provides important pragmatic guidance for enhancing the understanding of the importance of ethical leadership in information systems security research.

The Influence of Ethical Leadership on Ethical Behavior Mediated by Ethical Climate at Government Institutions in Aceh Indonesia

The objective of this study is to identify the influence of ethical leadership on the ethical behavior of government officers in Aceh Province that mediated by ethical climate. The ethical leadership variable of moral person and moral manager are employed as exogenous variables, while the ethical leadership is as endogenous variable, then the ethical climate of caring and law and code is employed as both mediation and exogenous variables. The subject of this research is the officers in several government institutions in Aceh Province. The data was collected through a survey method and the hypotheses were tested using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). The result of this study identified that ethical leadership has positive influence on ethical climate and there is a direct influence of ethical leadership on ethical behavior. However, the influence between ethical leadership and ethical behavior of the officers is not mediated by ethical climate.

Ethical challenges in management of critically ill pregnant patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

Despite the overwhelming number of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases worldwide, data regarding the optimal clinical guidance in pregnant patients is not uniform or well established. As a result, clinical decisions to optimize maternal and fetal benefit, particularly in patients with critical COVID-19 in the early preterm period, continue to be a challenge for obstetricians. There is often uncertainty in clinical judgment about fetal monitoring, timing of delivery, and mode of delivery because of the challenge in balancing maternal and fetal interests in reducing morbidity and mortality. The obstetrician and critical care team should empower pregnant patients or their surrogate decision maker to make informed decisions in response to the team's clinical evaluation. A clinically grounded ethical framework, based on the concepts of the moral management of medical uncertainty, beneficence-based obligations, and preventive ethics, should guide the decision-making process.

Trickle-down effect of moral leadership on unethical employee behavior: a cross-level moderated mediation model

PurposeMoral leadership is a common leadership style in Chinese society and is of great significance to Chinese organizations. Unethical employee behavior also widely exists in all kinds of social organizations and brings great harm. The research on the relationship between moral leadership and unethical employee behavior has not been involved yet, but it is important. This paper studies how moral manager (senior leader) leadership trickles down to unethical employee behavior through moral supervisor (employee direct supervisor) leadership, and discusses the moderating effect of LMX and ethical climate.Design/methodology/approachThrough the questionnaire survey of 406 pairs of leaders and employees, and use multilevel path analysis, we test the hypothesis in this paper.FindingsThe research results show that (1) Moral manager leadership is negatively related to unethical employee behavior. (2) Moral supervisor leadership mediates the relationship between moral manager leadership and unethical employee behavior. (3) LMX positively moderates the relationship between moral manager leadership and moral supervisor leadership, and moderates the mediating effect of moral supervisor leadership. (4) Ethical climate positively moderates the relationship between moral supervisor leadership and unethical employee behavior, and moderates the mediating effect of moral supervisor leadership.Originality/valueFirst, this study further proves that moral leadership is a popular positive leadership among the three dimensions of paternalistic leadership that extends its influence to unethical employee behavior. Second, this study traces the source of the moral leadership of employees' supervisors and reveals the action mechanism of how moral manager leadership affects unethical employee behavior. Finally, LMX provides the organizational context of the trickle-down effect and the occurrence of unethical employee behavior.

Dominant Management Logics of Siyasetnamas – A Moral Management Perspective

This article examines the management perspectives in Islamic political history, which can contribute to the contemporary management and organizational knowledge (MOK). It attempts to find out the taken-for-granted assumptions and arguments that shape the Muslim scholars’ management perspective in history. To this end, political treatises in Islamic history (namely, 'siyasetnamas') and their managerial arguments are scrutinized through content analysis. By determining underlying dominant logics -assumptions that most siyasetnamas refer to- this article allows us a mental exercise to step out of the Western mindset, which is thought to be the best, and the only way to understand MOK and tries to introduce a moral management perspective from the history of Islam. Our results indicate that siyasetnamas’ dominant management logics could provide valuable implications to MOK with their emphasis on (i) considering society as the real owner of entities, (ii) having additional societal responsibilities, and (iii) moral competency of organizational actors.