Practical Ethics In Public Administration - Softcover

Gueras, Dean; Garofalo, Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1567262953 ISBN 13: 9781567262957

Verlag: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2010

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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 not lend themselves to easy answers. This book provides the tools, techniques, and methods needed to help meet these challenges.

This completely updated third edition offers 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

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Dean Geuras is Professor of Philosophy at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas. In addition to articles in philosophy, Dr. Geuras has authored interdisciplinary publications relating philosophy to other fields, including theology and counseling.
Charles Garofalo, Professor of Political Science at Texas State University, teaches graduate and aundergraduate courses in public administration, public policy, administrative ethics, and business- government relations.
Together, Geuras and Garofalo have also co-authored Ethics in the Public Service: The Moral Mind at Work and Common Ground, Common Future: Moral Agency in Public Administration, Professions, and Citizenship.

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Practical Ethics in Public Administration

By Dean Geuras, Charles Garofalo

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Contents

Preface, 
CHAPTER 1. The Real World, 
CHAPTER 2. Ethics in the Public Sector/Ethics in the Private Sector, 
CHAPTER 3. What Is Ethics, Anyway?, 
CHAPTER 4. Raising the Right Questions: Ethical Approaches to Five Important Cases, 
CHAPTER 5. The Real World Revisited, 
CHAPTER 6. Who Am I? Who Do I Want to Be? What Do I Want?, 
CHAPTER 7. Making Choices, 
CHAPTER 8. Problems That Might Arise and How to Analyze Them, 
CHAPTER 9. Developing an Ethical Style: How Would You Analyze Problems That Might Arise?, 
CHAPTER 10. Addressing Public Ethical Conflict by Means of the Unified Ethic, 
CHAPTER 11. Leadership Development and Moral Agency in Contemporary Governance, 
CHAPTER 12. Perspectives on Contemporary Reform: Reinventing Government and the New Public Management, 
CHAPTER 13. Ethics, Quality, and Performance, 
CHAPTER 14. Ethical Dilemmas in Hybridization and Outsourcing, 
CHAPTER 15. The Competent Moral Agent, 
CHAPTER 16. Wrap-Up and Key Points, 
Afterword, 
References, 
Index, 

CHAPTER 1

The Real World

Different people at different levels of different public organizations define their work environments in different ways. If you are at or near the top of a health or human services agency, you tend to see things in one way. If you are in the middle of a public works hierarchy, then you probably see things somewhat differently. If you are just starting your career in an environmental bureaucracy, you probably see things in a still different way. But public managers, veterans and novices alike, live in what is often called "the real world" — a world of agendas, budgets, and meetings, a world of strategies, internal and interagency political games and power plays, a world of turf battles and empire building. It is a world of relationships with private contractors, interest groups, citizens' organizations, and the media. It is what academics might call an instrumental world, characterized by goal-setting, priorities, and deadlines. It is a world in which you may sometimes need to sit with your back to the wall in order to survive. It is a world of climbers, jungle fighters, and even statesmen and women. It can be exciting, tedious, fulfilling, monotonous, inspiring, or dull, depending on the day, the people around you, the mood you are in, the conversation you just had with your boss, or any number of other things. It is, in other words, the world of work in American public service.

But what makes this world real? Or to put it another way, real compared to what? Is the reality of this world based on the fact that there are consequences that go with decisions and actions, consequences that affect people's lives or agencies' futures? Is it based as well on the explicit and implicit power relationships that tend to govern behavior? Does it also include the focus on getting the job done?

If these are at least a few of the relevant considerations in determining what makes the administrative world real, then we must note that these characteristics can be found in other worlds as well. For example, despite its image as a protected and placid environment of navel gazers, even the academic world is replete with the very attributes associated with so-called more practical settings. On university campuses, the issues of accountability and responsibility are real and enduring in the lives of students and academic staff, a

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1567262953
• ISBN 13: 9781567262957
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 3
• Anzahl der Seiten: 460
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