Looking good, but behaving badly: Leader accountability and ethics failure

Health Care Manager

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 191-199

  Bruhn, John G ^a  

^a NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethics failure in organizations; Leader accountability; Moral organizations; Organizational ethics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; ETHICS; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONAL ETHICS; LEADERSHIP; MORALITY; ORGANIZATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; UNITED STATES;

COMMERCE; ETHICS, INSTITUTIONAL; HUMANS; LEADERSHIP; MORAL OBLIGATIONS; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 27144532219     PISSN: 15255794     EISSN: 1550512X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00126450-200507000-00002     Document Type: Article

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