From: ‘You can give them wings to fly’: a qualitative study on values-based leadership in health care
Starting questions | |
Can you recall a very difficult ethical dilemma/conflict/contradiction that you have experienced in your professional life as a health care manager? | |
Can you describe the situation in detail? What happened exactly? | |
Why was it so difficult? | |
How did you deal with it? | |
Was a solution possible? How did you come to it? If not, what did you do? | |
Why was that a striking example of an ethical dilemma to you? | |
Ethical Values | |
What does ethics mean to you? | |
How is it present in your job as health care manager? | |
Which values are inspiring to you? | |
Which values function as an ethical compass in your job? Why? | |
What, according to your experience, does ethics have to do with health care? | |
What, according to your experience, are the most difficult or challenging ethical dilemmas in health care management? | |
Ethical experience | |
Which ethical experience/situation (within you job) has most significantly remained in your memory until now? | |
Can you describe it? What happened? | |
What exactly made this experience positive/inspiring or negative/difficult? | |
Why is it this ethical experience that remained most in your memory? | |
Role Model | |
Who has been your ethical example? | |
Who has been a clear role model in your professional life? | |
Can you describe why? |