03/25/2026
By David Greenway

The Manning School of Business, Department of Management, invites you to attend a doctoral dissertation defense by Ph.D. candidate David Greenway on “The Lived Experience of Moral Injury at Work.”

Candidate Name: David Greenway
Degree Concentration: Leadership/Organizational Studies
Date: Wednesday, April 8, 2026
Time: 2–3:30 p.m.
Location: Dean’s Conference Room, Pulichino Tong Business Center (PTBC) and via Zoom

Dissertation Title: The Lived Experience of Moral Injury at Work

Committee:

  • Erica Steckler, Ph.D. (Chair), Associate Professor, Manning School of Business, University of Massachusetts Lowell
  • Kim Merriman, Ph.D., Professor, Manning School of Business, University of Massachusetts Lowell
  • David M. Wasieleski, Ph.D., Albert Paul Viragh Professor of Business Ethics, Executive Director, Viragh Institute for Business Ethics, Duquesne University

Abstract:
This dissertation explores how People experience moral injury at work. Using a qualitative phenomenological approach based on in-depth interviews, this study advances a relational-encounter model of the lived experience of moral injury in ordinary work. Findings suggest that moral injury is not experienced as a discrete event but rather as lived ‘movements’ within a relational-moral field unfolding across five interrelated themes: Registering, Reckoning, Responding, Recalibrating, and Repositioning. This dissertation extends moral injury scholarship by offering a phenomenologically grounded framework for understanding moral injury as a relational, temporally unfolding phenomenon, and by suggesting that moral injury resides in how individuals continue to engage with moral worlds that remain fractured, constrained, and morally complex.

All interested students and faculty members are invited to attend.