Management, Organisation, and Ethics in the Public Sector

by Bishop, Patrick; Connors, Carmel; Sampford, C. J. G.

• ISBN13: 9780754622802
• ISBN10: 0754622800
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-10-01
• Publisher: Ashgate Pub Co

Summary

This book brings together the experience and research of a range of practitioners and academics in public sector management, organisational theory, management theory, public sector ethics and law. It addresses what management and organisation theory might suggest about the nature of public organisations and the institutionalisation of ethics.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors and Editors	vii
PART I: ETHICS IN A CHANGING CONTEXT
1 The New Public Sector: Changing Management, Organisation, and Ethics
Patrick Bishop and Carmel Connors	3	(16)
2 Ethics in a Changing State - Problems and Opportunities
R.F.I. Smith	19	(24)
3 Great Expectations - But Whose? Stakeholder Theory and its Implications for Ethical Behaviour in Public Organisations
John Martin	43	(18)
4 The hubris of Principle: What Organisational Theory and Neurophysiology Reveal about the Limits of Ethical Principles as Guides to Responsible Action
Michael Harmon	61	(24)
5 The Good, the Bad, and the Impossible: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on the Discourse of Ethics
O.C. McSwite	85	(16)
6 The Matrix of Integrity: Is it Possible to Shift the Emphasis from Compliance to Responsibility in Changing Contexts? - Lessons from the United Kingdom
Alan Doig	101	(22)
PART II: THE CASE STUDIES
7 Just Rhetoric? Exploring the Language of Leadership
John Uhr	123	(22)
8 Bureaucracy, Power, and Ethics
Stewart Clegg and Jon Stokes	145	(16)
9 The Challenge of Justice and Caring for the Organisation of the School
Marie Brennan	161	(18)
10 Ethics in the Public Sector: Listening to the Voices of Women Executives
Brigid Limerick	179	(22)
11 Isolated Agents
Robert Kelso	201	(18)
12 Creating or Maintaining an Ethical, Effective Public Organisation
Robert Cunningham	219	(18)
PART III: MANAGING FOR ETHICAL OUTCOMES
13 The Three Frames and Ethics - An Education Queensland Perspective
Jim Varghese	237	(18)
14 Public Integrity Capacity, Management Theory, and Organisational Theory
Joseph A. Detrick	255	(26)
Index	281