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A Scale Of Heroic Cognition For Workplace Contexts, Patrick Joseph Furey
A Scale Of Heroic Cognition For Workplace Contexts, Patrick Joseph Furey
College of Science and Health Theses and Dissertations
Interest in research on heroism has begun to increase during the past decade, but, despite the ancient roots of heroism embedded deeply in cultures around the world, empirical work on the subject is relatively sparse. Direct and explicit empirical study of heroism in organizational contexts, specifically, is especially rare. The lack of organizational heroism research is surprising. There is a preponderance of evidence that organizational wrongdoing is observed across many organizations, sometimes to great extremes that are in violation of federal law, and it can have profound social impact. Organizational members who become aware of extreme wrongdoing committed by others …