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Organizational ethics: A literature review.
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PMID:  21558106     Owner:  NLM     Status:  In-Data-Review    
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The aim of the study was to report the results of a systematically conducted literature review of empirical studies about healthcare organizations' ethics and management or leadership issues. Electronic databases MEDLINE and CINAHL yielded 909 citations. After a two stage application of the inclusion and exclusion criteria 56 full-text articles were included in the review. No large research programs were identified. Most of the studies were in acute hospital settings from the 1990s onwards. The studies focused on ethical challenges, dilemmas in practice, employee moral distress and ethical climates or environments. Study samples typically consisted of healthcare practitioners, operational, executive and strategic managers. Data collection was mainly by questionnaires or interviews and most of the studies were descriptive, correlational and cross-sectional. There is need to develop conceptual clarity and a theoretical framework around the subject of organizational ethics and the breadth of the contexts and scope of the research needs to be increased.
Authors:
Riitta Suhonen; Minna Stolt; Heli Virtanen; Helena Leino-Kilpi
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Type:  Journal Article    
Journal Detail:
Title:  Nursing ethics     Volume:  18     ISSN:  1477-0989     ISO Abbreviation:  Nurs Ethics     Publication Date:  2011 May 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2011-05-11     Completed Date:  -     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  9433357     Medline TA:  Nurs Ethics     Country:  England    
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Languages:  eng     Pagination:  285-303     Citation Subset:  N    
Affiliation:
University of Turku, Finland. riisuh@utu.fi.
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