Practical Ethics In Public Administration

Author: Gueras Dean; Garofalo Charles  

Publisher: Berrett Koehler‎

Publication year: 2010

E-ISBN: 9781523097418

Subject: B82 Ethics ( Moral Philosophy );F2 Economic Planning and Management;F7 Trade Economy

Keyword: 经济计划与管理,伦理学(道德哲学),贸易经济

Language: ENG

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Make the Right Choice - Enhance Your Ethical Decision Making Skills Today!
Ethical issues arise in all walks of life, but none have implications as far-reaching and serious as those related to public management. Most people working in the public sector want to do the "right" thing, but the issues can be highly complex or just not lend themselves to easy answers. 
Practical Ethics in Public Administration, Third Edition, provides the tools, techniques, and methods needed to help meet these challenges. This completely updated third edition provides public sector professionals the information they need to face the ethical issues that arise in the course of a day's work, address those issues with greater self-assurance, perform their duties in an ethically justifiable manner, and explain their actions reasonably.
This new edition:
• Covers emerging ethical issues surrounding public-private partnerships
• Examines the shift from compliance-based to integrity-based ethics programs
• Explores the context of moral competency

Chapter

What Does the Shop Sell?

Social Values Are Essential to Public Administration

Ethics Statements in Private and Public Agencies

Medical Ethics Statements as Models

Ethics Statements in the Private Sector

Cummins Engine Company

Caterpillar Tractors

Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company

Ethics Statements in the Public Sector

The Need For Ethical Judgment

Chapter 3 - What Is Ethics, Anyway?

Why Does Ethics Make Me Nervous?

The Great Historical Traditions

Relativism

Teleology

Deontology

Intuitionism

Virtue Theory

Combining the Great Historical Traditions into a Unified Process

Taking Your Ethical Temperature

Chapter 4 - Raising the Right Questions: Ethical Approaches to Five Important Cases

The Tuskegee Syphilis Study

Teleology

Deontology

Intuitionism

Virtue Theory

Are Leaky Condoms Better Than None?

Teleology

Deontology

Intuitionism

Virtue Theory

Massacre or Be Massacred

Teleology

Deontology

Intuitionism

Virtue Theory

Optimistic Projection or Opportunistic Deception?

Teleology

Deontology

Intuitionism

Virtue Theory

The FBI Looks It Up in the Library

Teleology

Deontology

Intuitionism

Virtue Theory

Chapter 5 - The Real World Revisited

Organizational Structure and Organizational Culture

The Unified Ethic

Organizational Structure, Culture, and Ethical Behavior

Codes of Ethics and Ethics Training

Ethical Energy and Reform

Chapter 6 - Who Am I? Who Do I Want to Be? What Do I Want?

Hopes and Dreams in Modern America

Organizational Life

Moral Stress in Public Administration

Sources of Moral Stress

Reducing Moral Stress

Chapter 7 - Making Choices

Ethical Dilemmas, Ethical Decisions

Approaches To Decision Making

Perspectives On Ethical Decision Making

A Sample of the Literature

The Enhanced Unified Ethic

Chapter 8 - Problems That Might Arise and How to Analyze Them

A Questionable Hire

Analysis

Teleology

Deontology

Intuitionism

Virtue theory

Was the Policy of Confidentiality among the Committee Members Appropriate?

Did the Committee Act in Good Faith?

General Consideration of Procedure

Teleology

Deontology

Virtue theory

Intuitionism

Taking A Leave Or Taking Leave?

Analysis

Privacy Versus Safety

Analysis

The Illegal Strike

Analysis

Who Goes? Who Stays?

Analysis

Key Emerging Issues

The Relation of Character to Ethical Decision Making

The Development of Informed Ethical Intuitions

The Development of Personal Ethical Styles

Chapter 9 - Developing an Ethical Style: How Would You Analyze Problems That Might Arise?

What Is Ethical Style?

Determining Your Ethical Style

A Privatization Matter

The Skokie Case

Evaluating Rico

Fitness and Job Performance

Issues in Privatization

Selling Prime Cuts

Building Character Through Athletics?

Making the Big Switch

Plausible Ambiguity

The Elegant Outhouse

Criminal Negligence?

Cybersex at the Securities and Exchange Commission

Leaks in the Ship of State

Must I Really Tell You Why I Did It?

Living in Style—Ethically

Chapter 10 - Addressing Public Ethical Conflict by Means of the Unified Ethic

Conflicts Between Private and Public Morality

Conscientious Moral Conflict Within Organizations

The Unified Ethic in Policy Development and in Organizational Ethical Literature

The Unified Ethic and Moral Conflicts

Ethical Statements By Individuals Within An Organization

Chapter 11 - Leadership Development and Moral Agency in Contemporary Governance

Leadership

Leadership Development in OECD Countries

Leadership Development in the United States

A Proposal For Leadership Development and Moral Agency

Chapter 12 - Perspectives on Contemporary Reform: Reinventing Government and the New Public Management

Reinventing Government

Profile of Reinvention Results

Critiques of Reinventing Government

The Political Theory of Reinvention

Reinventing the Proverbs of Government

New Public Management

New Public Management, Entrepreneurship, and Ethics

Ethics and Entrepreneurship

Public Ethics and the New Managerialism

Chapter 13 - Ethics, Quality, and Performance

Performance and Productivity

Ethics and Performance

The Triad

The Unified Ethic

The Concept of Public Value

Organizational Development and the Quality of Work Life

Chapter 14 - Ethical Dilemmas in Hybridization and Outsourcing

Hybridization

Ethical Dilemmas in Hybrid Organizations

Outsourcing

Outsourcing Prisons

Outsourcing National Security

Public Values and Outsourcing National Security

A Cautious Approach To Outsourcing

Chapter 15 - The Competent Moral Agent

Public Service Motivation and Moral Competence

The Unified Ethic and Moral Competence

Moral Competence in Public Administration

The Framework of Moral Competence

Recommendations for Organizational Change

Chapter 16 - Wrap-Up and Key Points

Common Attitudes Toward Ethics in Public Administration

Ethics as a Threat

Ethics as an Externally Imposed Impediment

Ethics as an Internally Imposed Hurdle

Ethics as a Component of the Job

Ethics as a Defining Feature of the Profession

Ethics as a Unifier

Further Research and Reflection

Performance Linked to Ethics

Agency Adaptation

Healthy Skepticism Toward Reforms

Creating Public Value

Afterword

References

Index

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