Overview
- Outlines the unique challenges facing nonprofits and ways to balance the needs of multiple stakeholders and bottom lines
- Portrays media coverage of well-known scandals involving large nonprofits
- Introduces a road map to ethical thinking by examining new and existing codes of ethics
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Cases
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Back Matter
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About this book
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?Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Allison R. Russell is a Ph.D. candidate in Social Welfare in the School of Social Policy and Practice at the University of Pennsylvania, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ethics for Social Impact
Book Subtitle: Ethical Decision-Making in Nonprofit Organizations
Authors: Femida Handy, Allison R. Russell
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75040-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-75039-2Published: 24 May 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09133-0Published: 24 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-75040-8Published: 05 May 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 253
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations
Topics: Non-Profit Organizations and Public Enterprises, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate Governance