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EthicsinPublicAdministrationchapter7.pptxEthics in Public Administration: Chapter Seven
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Chapter Seven:
Two Faces of Irresponsibility
Using a public organization’s information and access to key people for personal gain
Bending the direction of policies and programs away from their mandated objectives
A conflict among internal and external controls reflects faulty design and is conducive to unethical conduct.
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Conflicts among Internal and External Controls
Sexual orientation and law enforcement.
What are the facts?
What principles were at risk?
What is the cause of the problem?
What are some solutions?
Natural Death
What are the facts?
What external controls were in conflict?
What internal controls were in conflict?
What three things were wrong with the Natural Death Act itself?
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Components of Responsible Conduct
Individual Attributes
Give examples
Organizational culture
Give examples
Organizational Structure
Give examples
Societal expectations
Give examples
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Components of Responsible Conduct
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Individual Attributes
Need to recognize certain conditions
Moral ambiguity
Self interest and altruism
Contextual forces that condition priorities
Values reordered as situations change
Paradoxes of procedures
Give order and yet can become ends
Moral Qualities
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American Regime Values
The Constitution –3 main values
Name them
Cooper’s list beyond the Constitution
Name 4
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Organizational Structure
Objective responsibility is enhanced through clear accountability
Subjective responsibility is enhanced at every level through the constitutional nature of the organization.
Heightening both focuses efforts toward achieving goals.
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Organizational Culture
Informal set of myths, rituals, values and norms that exist alongside the formal structure
Culture may subvert the best efforts of leaders desiring to build an ethical organization
Individuals who are ethical are hired and trained
Accountabilities may be clear
Culture can still subvert
Discourage ethical behavior
Encourage unethical behavior
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Societal expectations
Expressed through
Participation
Must be carefully planned and systematically structured
Can be frustrating, time consuming, anxiety producing
Two results: maintains the people as the focus and assists in clarifying laws
Laws and policies
Some cohesion needed in pluralistic diversity
Two results: provide constraints on administrators and link administrator with executive, judicial, legislative offices.
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Measuring Ethical Culture
Kinds of Values
Intrinsic
Intrinsic thinking about ethics focuses on the personal ethics: on personal conscience, an individual's sense of responsibility, and personal integrity.
Extrinsic
The extrinsic dimension focuses on practical ethics. It involves seeing oneself as responsible for the common welfare, as willing to do what is required to carry out good deeds, and as feeling an obligation to do good.
Systemic
Systemic thinking about ethics is all about moral code. It speaks of respect for rules, compliance with regulations, and clarity of ethical principles.
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Value Science
Axiology
Robert S. Hartman
Nazi Germany
“The engineering of good.”
Axiometrics
Wayne Carpenter
Philosophy student
Helicopter decision simulator
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Components of Responsible Conduct
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Key Relationships
Societal Expectations prime
Individual attributes must support public interest
Organizational structure must provide access
Organizational culture must include norms that encourage support of law and engagement with the public
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