Mission leaders are effective in promoting the development of ethical decision-making behaviors throughout the organization in three areas within the context of the Catholic moral tradition.
1. Organizational Ethics
- Helps shape a work culture rooted in Gospel values
- Informs and promotes dialogue around the Ethical And Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services
- Facilitates corporate discernment and mission-based decision-making processes
- Understands and applies values and principles to the business of health care – issues of management, finance, human resources and networking
- Surfaces spoken and unspoken moral assumptions and habitual ways of acting within an organization
- Makes moral mission-based assessments of conditions which impact the workplace and helps shape a just working environment
2. Justice
- Understands and applies the social tradition of the Church to Catholic health care
- Advocates for special care to and with people in poverty, the under- represented and/or those with special needs
- Promotes right relationships throughout the organization and the community
- Integrates environmental-ecological justice principles within the organization's role as caregiver, employer, community member and partner
3. Clinical Ethics
- Assists in interpreting the Ethical And Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services in relationship to clinical issues
- Works with a variety of health care professionals in identifying values and principles that guide ethical decision making in clinical matters
- Develops and monitors appropriate policies and their implementation
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Regarding mission, and ethics, what type of preparation is necessary for mission leaders to help them to meet the competencies defined in the new model?
Regarding mission, and ethics, what strategies are recommended for a mission leader to be most effective in addressing these competencies?
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