What to Do About Complicity in Organizational Wrongs

Despite their benevolent intent, health-care delivery organizations often cause harm. While some harms are unavoidable in the course of doing business- and are perhaps morally justified-other harms constitute organizational wrongs, which are never justifiable. When a health-care delivery organization acts wrongly, the organizational wrong imbues individual employees with a responsibility to mitigate those wrongs. This article explores the question of individual responsibility in relationship to organizational wrongs and proposes strategies that complicit individuals can adopt to mitigate organizational wrongs.