Organizational Ethics in Catholic Health Care: Honoring Stewardship and the Work Environment

Organizational ethics refers to the integration of values into decision making, policies, and behavior throughout the multi-disciplinary environment of a health care organization. Based upon Catholic social ethics, stewardship is at the heart of organizational ethics in health care in this sense: st...

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Published in:Christian bioethics 2001, Vol.7 (1), p.67-93
Main Author: Magill, G
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bioethics
Catholicism
Ethics, Institutional
Hospitals, Religious - economics
Hospitals, Religious - organization & administration
Hospitals, Religious - standards
Organizational Culture
Organizational Objectives
Personnel Management - methods
Personnel Management - standards
Salaries and Fringe Benefits
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Summary:Organizational ethics refers to the integration of values into decision making, policies, and behavior throughout the multi-disciplinary environment of a health care organization. Based upon Catholic social ethics, stewardship is at the heart of organizational ethics in health care in this sense: stewardship provides the hermeneutic filter that enables basic ethical principles to be realized practically, within the context of the Catholic theology of work, to concerns in health care. This general argument can shed light on the specific topic of non-executive compensation programs as an illustration of organizational ethics in health care.
ISSN:1380-3603
1744-4195
DOI:10.1076/chbi.7.1.67.3765