Ethics for Social Impact: Ethical Decision-Making in Nonprofit Organizations [Hardcover]

This book outlines the various elements involved in ethical decision-making for nonprofit leaders, and whose rights to prioritize when facing complex situations. Nonprofit board members and employees are often placed in difficult situations, with no single stakeholder and an allegiance to mission statements whose outcomes can be difficult to measure. While nonprofit charitable organizations are generally considered more trustworthy than their counterparts in the public or for-profit sector, when scandals and wrongdoings are uncovered, they must be dealt with in ethical ways.

 

Through a case study approach, this book delivers clear ethical decision-making frameworks and promotes robust reflection on how to arrive at different decision points and throw light on elements that are often ignored or assumed. Ultimately, it offers students, researchers, and managers a practical approach to the ambiguous question, what is the ethical way?

Part I.- 1. Introduction: Why Ethics?- 2. Multiple Stakeholders and Multiple Bottom Lines.- 3. Theoretical Foundations and Frameworks for Decision-making.- 4. Mathing Ethics Part of Practice: Developing a Code of Ethics.- 5. A Road Map for Ethical Decision-Making.- Part II.- 6. Case 1: Tainted Money.- 7. Case 2: Strings Attached.- 8. Case 3: Sugarcoating.- 9. Case 4: Volunteer Insurgence.- 10. Case 5: Clashing Cultures.- 11. Case 6: Vexed Volunteers.- 12. Case 7: Values and Services.- 13. Case 8: To Tell or Not to Tell.- 14. Case 9: Rare Diseases, Common Dilemmas.- 15. Case 10: A Tail of Two Employees.- 16. Case 11: Cutting Calories or Cutting Costs.

Femida Handy is Professor and Director of the Ph.D. program in the School of Social Policy and Practice at the University of Pennsylvania, USA, anlƒ*