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Ethical issues

Chapter 3

The main ethical issue here is that the inability of the city manager to conduct background information on the candidate contesting for the police chief post due to fear of making moves.

The story summarizes that there has a contentious political situation in the city where both Mayor Morris and Police Chief Grover who have not been at better terms lately. The Mayor on several occasions has accused the police chief of racial discrimination in his duties. There is a very new young city manager who is in a dilemma in solving the issues between the mayor and police chief. There is an issue with the police chief, and they need to hire a new police chief. They organize for an interview, and during the interview, the city manager is seen not to like a certain candidate. He is worried about his job and uncomfortable. He, therefore, does not do a good background check up since the new guy has various crimes and lawsuits leveled against him. The new city manager is afraid of making moves and is in support of whoever the city ends up hiring. The new guy, however, does not do his job and in the long run, ends up getting fired.

Regarding the main ethical issue was that the new city manager did not use his powers bestowed on him to be able to look at the background information of the candidate contesting for the police chief post. This ends up costing the city a lot of money and the city, and its citizens are not served well.

What would have happened is that the new police chief does not do his job as expected and this ends up costing the city a lot of money? Additionally, the new city manager did nor served anybody in that situation including the citizens.

What interested me was that the new city manager of afraid of making moves and the required authority that he has to appropriately select the best and qualified police chief to serve the city and the citizens. The new city manager should use the ensure that during interviews of any kind, there should be adequate background information of the candidates. This will make it better for the city and the citizens.

From the presentation style, I learned how accurate the chronological events were well inclusive from the disagreement between the mayor and the police chief, intervention by the city manager, then hiring a new police chief.

Additionally, I would make the presentation pleasing and informative to the audience by including rhetorical questions that would make the audience scratch their head a little bit trying to crack the answer to the question.

Chapter 10

The main ethical issue here is the inappropriate firing of an individual by bypassing the stipulated procedures that have been put in place to do so. This is wrong even though the community leaders are protecting the citizens.

The story summary is that there is a police officer that is always actively involved in youth activities in the city. He also helps children in the city in various ways. However, a child in therapy accuses the police of molesting her, and when this news reaches the community leaders and the police service, he is fired and charged. Their leaders try to protect the community from child molestation, which is right but they do not follow the due process in firing the police officer. The police officer is however denied his back pay, and the leaders try to keep it quite. The community does not believe that the police officer molested the child since there was no evidence provided. This leads to lawsuits between the city and the police officer.

Regarding the main ethical issue, it was wrong for the leaders to fire the police officer without gathering the sufficient evidence that implicates him of molesting the child.

Based on the ethical issue, what would have happened is that it divides the city, it is costly, and the leaders are opening up the city for a lawsuit. Additionally, there has to be a due process in establishing that the police officer is a child molester which in this case did not happen.

What interested me was that the leaders jumped into conclusion that the police officer is guilty of molesting the child based on what he said when he was made to appear before the panel. There was no concrete evidence to implicate the police office for the crime.

The ethical issue would be made better when the leaders conduct an open investigation regarding the child molestation claim, and if the police officer was found guilty, then, the appropriate steps and procedures should be conducted in firing him.

While reading this chapter, the presentation style used is the visual style and tries to explain in details about a particular scenario but with a few words on one slide.

Additionally, I would make the presentation pleasing and informative to the audience by including rhetorical questions that would make the audience scratch their head a little bit trying to crack the answer to the question.