Moral Climate of Organizations

Authors: Gunsalus, C. K.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Academic Medicine
Abstract: The single most important component in an institutional culture of research integrity is institutional leadership committed to ethical conduct. If the institution's leaders are committed to integrity in research and act on that comm...
Year: 1993
URL: http://www.law.uiuc.edu/faculty-admin/misc/gunsalus_pdf/10_Institutional%20Structure%20to%20Ensure%20Research%20Integrity.pdf

Authors: Gelman, Sheldon R. ; Gibelman, Margaret
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Accountability in Research: Policies & Quality Assurance
Abstract: This article describes the development of two techniques for measuring the ethical climate of scientific organizations. The first measure utilizes a traditional climate measurement approach and was developed in order to understand t...
Year: 2003
DOI: 10.1080/714906099

Authors: Anderson, Melissa S.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: The article summarizes the results from two national surveys of 4,000 faculty and doctoral students in chemistry, civil engineering, microbiology and sociology. The results of the survey indicate that both faculty and students subsc...
Year: 2000
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-000-0002-6

Authors: Vasgird, DR
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Academic Medicine
Abstract: The author discusses the value of responsible conduct of research education to administrations as a way to increase institutional stability. As researchers and students become more aware of compliance and integrity issues, the overa...
Year: 2007
URL: http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1001&context=researchcompsvcspubs

Authors: LEWIS, KS ; Anderson, Melissa S. ; SWAZEY, JP
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: AMERICAN SCIENTIST
Abstract: A survey of doctoral candidates and faculty raises important questions about the ethical environment of graduate education and research....
Year: 1993

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Authors: Sprague, Robert L. ; Roberts, Glyn C.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Professional Ethics Report
Abstract: The article reports on a study of research climates in universities. The researchers identified two types of climates; competitive, where competition and rivalrous behaviors on the part of faculty is encouraged, and educational, whe...
Year: 1995
URL: http://www.aaas.org/spp/sfrl/per/per3.htm

Authors: Anderson, Melissa S.
Publication Type: Conference Paper
Secondary Title: Workshop on Ethics Education and Scientific and Engineering Research
Abstract: Based on emperical evidence gathered through a survey, focus groups, and interviews with scientists involved in international collaborative projects, this paper provides empirical evidence of the relative power of RCR instruction an...
Year: 2008
URL: http://www.nae.edu/Programs/CEES14954/CEESActivities/EthicsEducationand-ScientificandEngineeringResearchWorkshop/MelissaAndersonPresentation.aspx

Authors: Shipp, Allan C. ; Korenman, Stanley G.
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: A new graduate student is trying to decide between two labs: one is a lab that has an extremely tense pace, carefully guarded privacy, and stringent requirements for graduate students but offers the promise of nearly certain postdoc...
Year: 1994
URL: http://www.research.umn.edu/ethics/pdf/LaboratorySelection.htm

Authors: Meyers, Christopher
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: The author argues that institutional culture, along with the irresponsible conduct of individuals, contributes to way in which scientific research is conducted. To help improve institutional ethical culture, it helps to define what...
Year: 2004
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-004-0022-8

Authors: Silliman, Jessica
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: The story of one woman working in the television entertainment industry, and her disappoint over how the economics of the TV industry mitigate against creative programming....
Year: 2007
URL: http://www.scu.edu/ethics/dialogue/candc/cases/creativity.html

Authors: Louis, Karen Seashore ; Holdsworth, Janet M. ; Anderson, Melissa S. ; Campbell, EG
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Journal of Higher Education
Abstract: The purpose of this article is to explore the effects of organizational and work-group characteristics on the socialization of new scientists. It focuses on the experiences of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in science. T...
Year: 2007
URL: http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordDetails/detailmini.jsp?_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=EJ759824&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=EJ759824
DOI: 10.1353/jhe.2007.0017

Authors: McDaniel, Charlotte ; Shoeps, Nancy ; Lincourt, John
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Journal of Business Ethics
Abstract: To assist one company in the development of an ethics code, a survey of 4005 employees in one U.S. corporation was conducted to ascertain their opinions of the ethical environment of the company. Male employees were more in agreemen...
Year: 2001
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1017593508147
DOI: 10.1023/A:1017593508147

Authors: Pimple, Kenneth D.
Publication Type: Report
Abstract: This report to the Committee on Assessing Integrity in Research Environments of the National Academies gives an overview of empirical assessments that have been done since 1996 on the moral climate of research in the U.S. The report...
Year: 2001
URL: http://mypage.iu.edu/~pimple/iom2.pdf

Authors: Farrell, Brian J. ; Cobbin, Deirdre M.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Professional Ethics: A Multidisciplinary Journal
Abstract: Among the traits of a profession, ethics is unexceptionally included. For this paper, a research model of 'mainstreaming' is introduced to ascertain the strength of commitment to an ethics culture by respondents from 47 associations...
Year: 1996

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Authors: Berger, Edward M. ; Gert, Bernard
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Professional Ethics: A Multidisciplinary Journal
Abstract: In 1992 the National Academy of Science Panel on Scientific Responsibility and the Conduct of Research release a series of recommendations for strengthening the research enterprise and to clarify the responsibilities of scientists, ...
Year: 1995

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Authors: Kaiser, Jocelyn
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science
Abstract: The article presents a Web-based survey conducted by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) on the agency's strict new work ethic rules. The new rules were imposed in August 2005. The rules ban the NIH employees from receiving...
Year: 2006
DOI: 10.1126/science.314.5800.740b

Authors: Forster, Kathie
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Professional Ethics: A Multidisciplinary Journal
Abstract: The author argues that schools much be ethical communities, and exemplify the best and most promising features of society so they can play a role in the moral education of children. In order for this to happen, teachers should be s...
Year: 1999

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Authors: Hattab, Abdulla Saeed
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Developing World Bioethics
Abstract: The article discusses how changes in how healthcare is delivered have made the classical Hippocratic ethical principles inadequate. Ethical principles that once governed the doctor-patient relationship must now cover a more comple...
Year: 2004
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-8731.2004.00091.x

Authors: Fritzsche, David J.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Journal of Business Ethics
Abstract: When faced with decisions posing various types of ethical dilemmas, most respondents indicated they would take the ethical path. The one exception involved bribery where respondents were about equally likely to make or withhold paym...
Year: 2000
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006262914562

Authors: Schrag, Brian
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: This case discusses the issue of two PhD students that had conflicts during the research process leading to issues of communication and the responsibilities of instructor in an environment of internal competition. Commentaries Inclu...
Year: 2002
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/Resources/Cases/ratrace.aspx

Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: This case highlights potential dilemmas encountered by postdoctoral fellows in a research setting, specifically determining whether scientific misconduct has been committed by falsified data. Commentaries Included Online...
Year: 2001
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/Resources/Cases/data.aspx

Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: This case discusses a possible conflict of interest between mentor and student and the dissemination of information within academia. Commentaries included online....
Year: 1999
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/Resources/Cases/chancemeet.aspx

Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Describes the role of trust in the relationship between individuals and health care institutions. Aspects of clinician-patient relationships; Frameworks for institutional ethics; Forms of enforcing ethical behavior; Information on i...
Year: 2001

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Authors: Rowe, Michael
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Presents an article about moral concerns in medical care....
Year: 2003

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Authors: Friedman, PJ ; Krulwich, TA
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Academic Medicine
Abstract: Great efforts are being made to provide training in appropriate research practices, but less is said about how trainees should be treated and how this treatment will affect the ethics they will absorb from the research environment r...
Year: 1993

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