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Join Professor Celia Moore, online or in person, for her Imperial Inaugural.

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Abstract

Wherever we go, whatever we do, we cannot escape the importance of managing morally complex decisions at work. How well we think through and execute on those decisions defines our legacy as humans, and can mean—literally—life or death for those affected by them. 

For most of her academic career, Professor Moore has studied how people understand the moral implications of their actions, and how these understandings then lead to better (or worse) moral decisions. Her inaugural lecture will centre on why truly taking responsibility for our actions is so difficult, and how we can build our organizations and develop leadership competencies to make doing so more likely. Drawing on her own published and ongoing work, she will provide an overview of how individuals enact their moral agency at work, offering insight on the following questions:

• How do individuals decide what to do in morally charged situations?
• Why do we see so many morally problematic outcomes in organizational life?
• Why are leaders so critical to creating contexts that make morally preferable outcomes more likely?

The lecture should be of interest to anyone who has ever been mystified by how irresponsible so many leaders are, or struggled with how to do the right thing at work themselves

Biography

Celia Moore is Professor of Organisational Behaviour and Director of the Centre for Responsible Leadership at Imperial College Business School. Prior to joining Imperial, she held positions at Bocconi University in Milan and London Business School, where she was on the faculty for nine years. She has also been a visiting scholar at Harvard Business School and a Fellow of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University.  

Her research focuses on how organizations unintentionally facilitate morally problematic behavior, and on how individuals can manage themselves and organizations develop leaders to better resist these consequences. More recently, her interest has turned to how individuals navigate morally consequential decisions in their professional lives, and challenge legitimate authority figures when they feel morally compelled to do so. 

Her teaching sits at the intersection of leadership and ethics. She is particularly interested in supporting individuals to enact their moral agency responsibly, and in so doing has worked with the Financial Conduct Authority (UK), Financial Services Culture Board (UK), National Health Service (UK), and the Brookings Institute (Washington, DC), as well as several major financial institutions. Her work has been featured in the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and Fast Company, as well as on NPR, the CBC, and the BBC. She is currently an Editor of the Academy of Management Annals. She holds a BA in Philosophy from McGill University, an MPA from Columbia University, and a PhD from the University of Toronto.

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