Public Service Ethics

Individual and Institutional Responsibilities

James S. Bowman, Jonathan P. West (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

388 Seiten

2018 | 2nd New edition
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-57818-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Ethics—in all its exemplary and exhausting forms—matters. It deals with the most gripping question in public life: "What is the right thing to do?" Now in a thoroughly revised second edition, Public Service Ethics: Individual and Institutional Responsibilities introduces readers to this personally relevant and professionally challenging field of study. No matter the topic—the necessity of ethics, intriguing human behavior experiments, the role of ethics codes, whistleblowing incidents, corruption exposés, and the grandeur and decay of morality—there is no shortage of controversy. The book enables readers to:











appreciate why ethics is essential to leadership;







understand and apply moral development theory at the individual and organizational levels of analysis;







differentiate between ethical problems and ethical dilemmas, and design creative ways to deal with them;







develop abilities to use moral imagination and ethical reasoning—to appraise, argue, and defend an ethical position, and







cultivate individual and institutional initiatives to improve ethical climate and infrastructure.








Authors James Bowman and Jonathan West capture reader interest by featuring learning objectives, skill-building material, discussion questions, and exercises in each chapter.　 The authors’ narrative is user-friendly and accessible, highlighting dilemmas and challenging readers to "own" the book by annotating the pages with one’s own ideas and insights, then interacting with others in a live or virtual classroom to stretch one’s thinking about the management of ethics and ethics of management. The ultimate goal is to bolster students’ confidence and prepare them for the ethical problems they will face in the future, equipping them with the conceptual frameworks and context to approach thorny questions and behave ethically.

Autor

James S. Bowman is Professor and Director of the Masters of Public Administration program at the Askew School of Public Administration and Policy, Florida State University, USA. Jonathan P. West is Professor and Chair of Political Science and Director of the graduate Public Administration program at the University of Miami, USA.

Inhalt

Part 1. Foundations of Public Service Ethics





1. Pertinence, Practicality, and Poppycock





2. Perspectives on Ethics: Macro, Meso, Micro





3. Values, Ethics, and Dilemmas





Part 2. Individual-Centered Approaches to Ethics





4. Moral Development Theory





5. Cognitive Ethics Methods: Result and Rule Problem-Solving Approaches





6. Virtue Theory





7. Conscious Deliberation and Subconscious Action: The Dishonesty of Honest People





Part 3. Institutional Approaches to Ethics





8. Organizational Ethics





9. Corruption Control





10. Whistleblowing in Organizations





Part 4. Issues in Public Service Ethics





11. Ethics and Elected Officials





12. Organizational Gaming and Performance Measurement





13. At-Will Employment





14. Open Government Case Study: Pay Disclosure





Part 5. Future History





15. Choices and Strategies for the Years Ahead

Produkt-Details

• Erscheinungsdatum: 11.07.2018
• Zusatzinfo: 12 Line drawings, black and white; 21 Tables, black and white; 12 Illustrations, black and white
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 191 x 235 mm
• Gewicht: 920 g
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
• ISBN-10: 1-138-57818-5 / 1138578185
• ISBN-13: 978-1-138-57818-0 / 9781138578180
• Zustand: Neuware