Practical Ethics in Public Administration

by Geuras, Dean; Garofalo, Charles

• ISBN13: 9781567261073
• ISBN10: 1567261078
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-11-01
• Publisher: Management Concepts Inc

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
The Real World	1	(14)
Challenges of Public Administration	2	(3)
Ethics in Public Administration	5	(10)
Why Is Ethics in the Public Sector Different from Ethics in the Private Sector?	15	(28)
Who Owns the Shop?	16	(2)
Who's Running the Shop?	18	(2)
What Does the Shop Sell?	20	(2)
Social Values Are Essential to Public Administration	22	(1)
Ethics Statements in Private and Public Agencies	23	(17)
Medical Ethics Statements As Models	24	(4)
Ethics Statements in the Private Sector	28	(5)
Ethics Statements in the Public Sector	33	(7)
The Need for Ethical Judgment	40	(3)
What Is Ethics, Anyway?	43	(28)
Why Does Ethics Make Me Nervous?	43	(3)
The Great Historical Traditions	46	(14)
Relativism	46	(3)
Teleology	49	(4)
Deontology	53	(5)
Intuitionism	58	(1)
Virtue Theory	59	(1)
Combining the Great Historical Traditions into a Unified Process	60	(7)
Taking Your Ethical Temperature	67	(4)
Raising the Right Questions: Ethical Approaches to Five Important Cases	71	(26)
The Tuskegee Syphilis Study	72	(6)
Are Leaky Condoms Better than None?	78	(5)
Massacre or Be Massacred	83	(4)
Optimistic Projection or Opportunistic Deception?	87	(5)
The FBI Looks It Up in the Library	92	(5)
The Real World Revisited	97	(28)
Organizational Structure and Organizational Culture	98	(1)
The Unified Ethic	99	(2)
Organizational Structure, Culture, and Ethical Bebavior	101	(5)
Codes of Ethics and Ethics Training	106	(4)
Ethical Energy and Reform	110	(15)
Who Am I? Who Do I Want to Be? What Do I Want?	125	(20)
Hopes and Dreams in Modern America	125	(3)
Organizational Life	128	(5)
Moral Stress in Public Administration	133	(12)
Sources of Moral Stress	134	(4)
Reducing Moral Stress	138	(7)
Making Choices	145	(18)
Ethical Dilemmas, Ethical Decisions	146	(2)
Approaches to Decision Making	148	(3)
Perspectives on Ethical Decision Making	151	(12)
A Sample of the Literature	153	(5)
The Enhanced Unified Ethic	158	(5)
Problems That Might Arise and How to Analyze Them	163	(30)
A Questionable Hire	164	(8)
Analysis	166	(2)
Was the Policy of Confidentiality among the Committee Members Appropriate?	168	(2)
Did the Committee Act in Good Faith?	170	(1)
General Consideration of Procedure	171	(1)
Taking a Leave or Taking Leave?	172	(5)
Analysis	175	(2)
Privacy versus Safety	177	(3)
Analysis	178	(2)
The Illegal Strike	180	(3)
Analysis	181	(2)
Who Goes? Who Stays?	183	(4)
Analysis	187	(1)
Key Emerging Issues	187	(6)
The Relation of Character to Ethical Decision Making	187	(2)
The Development of Informed Ethical Intuitions	189	(2)
The Development of Personal Ethical Styles	191	(2)
Developing an Ethical Style: How Would You Analyze Problems That Might Arise?	193	(28)
What Is Ethical Style?	194	(4)
Determining Your Ethical Style	198	(1)
A Privatization Matter	199	(2)
The Skokie Case	201	(4)
Evaluating Rico	205	(2)
Fitness and Job Performance	207	(4)
Issues in Privatization	211	(4)
Living in Style-Ethically	215	(6)
Perspectives on Contemporary Reform: Reinventing Government and the New Public Management	221	(30)
Reinventing Government	222	(4)
Profile of Reinvention Results	226	(5)
Critiques of Reinventing Government	231	(7)
The Political Theory of Reinvention	232	(2)
Reinventing the Proverbs of Government	234	(4)
New Public Management	238	(13)
New Public Management, Entrepreneurship, and Ethics	239	(4)
Ethics and Entrepreneurship	243	(3)
Public Ethics and the New Managerialism	246	(5)
Ethics, Quality, and Performance	251	(24)
Performance and Productivity	253	(8)
Ethics and Performance	261	(6)
The Triad	267	(8)
The Unified Ethic	267	(1)
The Concept of Public Value	268	(2)
Organizational Development and the Quality of Work Life	270	(5)
Wrap-Up and Key Points	275	(12)
Common Attitudes Toward Ethics in Public Administration	275	(3)
Ethics As a Threat	276	(1)
Ethics As an Externally Imposed Impediment	276	(1)
Ethics As an Internally Imposed Hurdle	277	(1)
Ethics As a Component of the Job	277	(1)
Ethics As a Defining Feature of the Profession	277	(1)
Ethics As a Unifier	278	(4)
Further Research and Reflection	282	(5)
Performance Linked to Ethics	282	(1)
Agency Adaptation	283	(1)
Healthy Skepticism Toward Reforms	283	(1)
Creating Public Value	284	(3)
Afterword	287	(2)
References	289	(6)
Index	295