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Pandemics at Work: Convergence of Epidemiology and Ethics

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William “Marty” Martin
Michele Thornton
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State University of New York at Oswego
William “Marty” Martin
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DePaul University
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Abstract

Like COVID-19, new infectious disease outbreaks emerge almost annually, and studies predict that this trend will continue due to a variety of factors, including an aging population, ease of travel, and globalization of the economy. In response to episodic public health crises, governments and organizations develop, implement, and enforce policies, procedures, protocols, and programs. The epidemiological triad is both a model of disease causation and fundamentally used to design and deploy such control measures. Here we adapt this model to the workplace setting and use the epidemiological triad to characterize the related ethical challenges in implementing the control measures employers face as a guide for a workplace intervention framework. Through this approach, our aim is to show how an integrated ethical framework, grounded in epidemiological principles, has important implications for how we categorize, understand, and resolve the difficult decisions that emerge in the workplace under pandemic conditions.

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ethical decision-makingorganizational managementbioethicspublic healthpandemicCOVID-19
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Business Ethics Quarterly , Volume 32 , Issue 1 , January 2022 , pp. 41 - 74
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© The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Society for Business Ethics

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