The importance of virtue ethics in the IRB

Morris, Marilyn C.; Morris, Jason Z

doi:10.1177/1747016116656023

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“…The potential threats to autonomy, voluntariness and participant welfare illustrated in our analysis have been documented in other empirical inquiries about incentives in health research more generally (Fisher, 2011) and with sex workers specifically (Anderson et al, 2016; Brown et al, 2015; Reed et al, 2014). Discussions of these harms have primarily emphasized a neoliberal, principle-based lens that stresses a focus on the individual and their rights that assumes equality among participants and researchers in the ability to exercise choice (Larkin et al, 2008; Morris & Morris, 2016; Resnik, 2012; Singer, 2011). Our application of relational autonomy as a critical theoretical lens (Mackenzie & Stoljar, 2000; Sherwin, 1992) required us to attend to a justice orientation that exposes inequities in research practices and processes that perpetuated marginalization, overrode opportunities for self-determination, and created the possibility for harm.…”

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The Ethics of Financial Incentivization for Health Research Participation Among Sex Workers in a Canadian Context

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Research incentivization with sex workers is common, yet limited guidance exists for ethical incentives practice. We undertook a critical qualitative inquiry into how researchers ( n = 17), community services staff ( n = 17), and sex workers participating in research ( n = 53) perceive incentives in a Canadian context. We employed an interpretive thematic approach informed by critical perspectives of relational autonomy for analysis. Four themes illustrate how (un)ethical use of incentives is situated in transactional micro-economies among groups experiencing severe marginalization: i) transactional research economy, ii) incentive type: assumptions and effects, iii) incentive amount: too much too little?, and iv) resistance, trauma, and research-related harm. Paternalistic assumptions about capacities of sex workers to act in their own best interests conflicted with participants’ rights and abilities for self-determination; with researchers maintaining ultimate decision-making authority. Power differentials create conditions of harm. Safe, equitable approaches concerning research incentive use must redress relations of power that perpetuate oppression.

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The Ethics of Financial Incentivization for Health Research Participation Among Sex Workers in a Canadian Context

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“…The findings of this study support that an employee's ethical behavior is formed partially by the direct effects of cardinal virtues. Morris and Morris (2016), contend that Virtue ethics, focuses on the development of the character of the individual who must confront ethical dilemmas. Virtue ethics recognizes that making a decision about difficult problems depends on the character of the people making decisions.…”

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Establishing the Influences of Cardinal Virtues on Employees’ Cyber Security Ethical Behavior in the Banking Sector in Uganda

Nakato¹,

Kituyi²,

Kaggwa³

2022

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Purpose: Cyber security threats emanating from employees’ incorrect behavior have escalated in the banking sector. Yet formal policies and technical solutions have failed to solve the problem. Virtue ethics may be a method that can handle this concern. This research aimed at enhancing Cyber security by confirming through statistical analysis the applicability of cardinal virtues related to cyber security ethical behavior. Methodology: The quantitative survey method utilizing an online questionnaire was used. Confirmatory factor analysis determined causal patterns in the variables and assessed them for validity and reliability. Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling was then used to test casual relations between the study’s constructs. Findings: The results reveal that there is a positive but an insignificant effect of prudence Beta 0.094. p = 0.277 on cyber security ethical behavioral Intentions; there is a positive and significant influence of Temperance; Beta 0.255, p = .000; a positive and significant influence of courage; Beta 0.247, p = .001; on cyber security ethical behavior, that there is a positive and significant influence of Justice; Beta 0.452, p = .000; on cyber security ethical behavioral Intentions. The results further showed that a positive change in ethical behavior intentions leads to a positive change in cyber security ethical behavior. Unique contribution to theory and practice: This research makes a theoretical contribution to Cyber security ethics by promoting virtue ethics as a framework for moral investigations into Cyber security. Results can be utilized to improve methods, instruments, and tools to assess the employees’ cyber security ethical behavior. Policy makers can develop virtue ethical based training programs with dedicated, continuous learning and teaching undertakings geared towards monitoring and enhancing the overall ethical behavior towards cyber security in the banks. The results are a platform to the Government of Uganda through the Ministry of ICT in generating appropriate national policies related to Cyber security ethics as a strategy aimed at improving Cyber security in the banking sector.

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“…The final comment on Carpenter's paper is by Morris and Morris. They were invited to comment as a result of their article 'The importance of virtue ethics in the IRB' (Morris & Morris, 2016) in the journal Research Ethics. In that paper they are concerned with the review of biomedical research.…”

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Virtue Ethics in the Conduct and Governance of Social Science Research

Emmerich¹

2018

Advances in Research Ethics and Integrity

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She researches and teaches in the fields of community, youth and social work, with a particular interest in professional ethics, community development and participatory action research. Helen Brown Coverdale is a Teaching Fellow in Political Theory at University College London. She holds an Arts & Humanities Research Council funded PhD in Law (London School of Economics) which applied the ethics of care to the theory of punishment. Helen is a legal and political theorist, and has taught political thought in the Philosophy Department at King's College London and the Government Department at the London School of Economics. David Carpenter works at the University of Portsmouth where he lectures in moral and political philosophy and researches in the broad field of research ethics. David is currently engaged as an ethics adviser to a DFID-funded project in South Asia. He is a long-standing Chair of an NHS Ethics Committee and regularly contributes to the work of the Health Research Authority in training and research projects. He was Vice Chair of the former Association for Research Ethics, which is now part of the Association for Research Managers and Administrators. He is a member of the British Psychological Society Ethics Committee.

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The importance of virtue ethics in the IRB

Cited by 17 publications

References 24 publications

The Ethics of Financial Incentivization for Health Research Participation Among Sex Workers in a Canadian Context

The Ethics of Financial Incentivization for Health Research Participation Among Sex Workers in a Canadian Context

Establishing the Influences of Cardinal Virtues on Employees’ Cyber Security Ethical Behavior in the Banking Sector in Uganda

Virtue Ethics in the Conduct and Governance of Social Science Research

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