Conflict of Interest and Moral Courage Flashcards
What is a conflict of interest?
A conflict between a professional responsibility and a personal interest that creates a risk of bias
What is bias?
Bias is a prejudice for or against something and can be conscious or unconscious. Bias may affect a professional judgement!
Policies on COI
- Explicit, public and applied evenhandedly
- Standards for disclosure
- Exclusion
COI and judgement
COI risk both conscious and unconscious influences on judgement. Even when people try to be objective, they are subject to unconscious and unintentional self-serving bias. Self-interests exert greater automatic processing than professional judgements!
Systematic COI vs. Severable COI
Severable COIs are avoidable since they are not built into a single role.
Systematic COI’s result from social roles and other role-based responsibilities so they are not always easy to avoid.
Professional Moral Courage
Compels or allows an individual to do what he or she beliefs is right, despite fear of social or economic consequences. Ethical behaviour takes thoughtful attention, time and patience!
5 core themes of professional moral courage
- Moral agency
- Multiple values
- Endures threat
- Supersedes compliance
- Moral goal
Moral agency
Having a predisposition to strive to address an ethical challenge with moral actoin
Multiple values
Using multiple value sets to determine moral action
Endures threat
Pursues moral action even in the face of danger or threat
Supersedes compliance
Applies rules but goes beyond compliance to consider what is right, just and appropriate
Moral goal
Moves to complete tasks with the application of moral principles to achieve a moral outcome
Moral principles
- Autonomy
- Nonmaleficence
- Beneficence
- Justice
- Fidelity
- Veracity
