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By: Terry L. CoopereBook Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
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Those who serve the public trust must take special care to ensure they make ethical and responsible decisions. Yet the realities of bureaucracies, deadlines, budgets, and demands for quick results make the payoffs for dealing formally with ethics seem unclear. Since its original publication, The Responsible Administrator has guided professionals and students alike as they grapple with the challenges of making ethical, responsible decisions in real world situations.
This new edition includes information on coping with new demands for accountability, as well as new cases and examples, an examination of current issues relevant to administrative ethics, and supplementary materials for professors.
Cooper’s theoretical framework and practical applications and techniques will help you consider all of the factors involved in a decision, ensuring that you balance professional, personal, and organizational values. Case studies and examples illustrate what works and what does not. The Responsible Administrator helps both experienced and novice public administrators and students become effective decision makers, provides them with a solid understanding of the role of ethics in public service and the framework to incorporate ethical and values-based decision making in day-to-day management.
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| Title of eBook: The Responsible Administrator | |
| Release Date: 04-08-2011 | |
| Publisher: Jossey-Bass |
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The Responsible Administrator
Chapter One
Introduction
The Responsible Administrator is one attempt to respond to the need for a systematic treatment of public administrative ethics that is grounded in both the realities of practice and the requirements of sound scholarship. It is important to identify the particular contribution intended here. The conceptual focus of the book is the role of the public administrator in an organizational setting; the central integrating ethical concept used in dealing with that role is responsibility. The central ethical process adopted for addressing ethical problems associated with administrative responsibility is a comprehensive design approach.
What Is Ethics?
Ethics is defined in various ways, some more technical and precise than others. The usual brief textbook or dictionary definitions define ethics as "the attempt to state and evaluate principles by which ethical problems may be solved" (Jones, Sontag, Becker, and Fogelin, 1969, p. 1), "the normative standards of conduct derived from the philosophical and religious traditions of society" (Means, 1970, p. 52), or "the task of careful reflection several steps removed from the actual conduct of men" concerning "the assumptions and presuppositions of the moral life" (Gustafson, 1965, p. 113). Preston (1996) becomes a bit more specific by suggesting that "ethics is concerned about what is right, fair, just, or good; about what we ought to do, not just about what is the case or what is most acceptable or expedient" (p. 16). Martin (1995) defines ethics as moral philosophy and stipulates that it includes four main goals or interests: clarification of moral co
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