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Book Ethics and Accountability in a Context of Governance and New Public Management

Download or read book Ethics and Accountability in a Context of Governance and New Public Management written by Annie Hondeghem and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethics and accountability have become important themes for modern government, as in most of the countries there is a severe crisis of legitimacy. Increasingly there is a feeling that performance management alone will not solve this crisis. Citizens also expect from politicians and public servants ethical responsible conduct. As to the ethics, however, there is a problem. Governance and new public management have raised new problems which cannot be solved by referring to the traditional bureaucratic ethics. Devolution and decentralisation processes have enhanced the responsibility of public servants. The increase of transparency and openness and the service orientation of public organisations have challenged the traditional values of discretion and equality before the rule. The growing interaction between the public and the private sector have raised the question of integrity. In light of these developments, it is important to update the ethical system, or reversibly, the traditional values of the public service can question some actual evolutions in government.

Book Ethics in Public Management

Download or read book Ethics in Public Management written by H George Frederickson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-22 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The groundbreaking "Ethics in Public Administration" set the agenda for a decade's worth of research in the theory and practice of ethics in the public sector. This long-awaited follow-up volume represents the state of the art in research on administrative ethics. It features all new contributions by many of the leading figures in the field, and addresses both the managerial and individual/moral dimensions of ethical behavior as well as new challenges to administrative ethics posed by globalization. A detailed introduction, opening passage, and conclusion lend context to each of the book's four main sections. "Ethics in Public Management" is must reading for any graduate level course in public sector ethics.

Book Ethics and Public Administration

Download or read book Ethics and Public Administration written by H George Frederickson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-04 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ethics and Public Administration" refutes the arguments that administrative ethics cannot be studied in an empirical manner and that empirical analysis can deal only with the trivial issues in administrative ethics. Within a theoretical perspective,the authors qualify their findings and take care not to over-generalise results. The findings are relevant to the practice of public administration. Specific areas addressed include understanding public corruption, ethics as control, and ethics as administration and policy

Book New Public Management

Download or read book New Public Management written by Jan-Erik Lane and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on economics, organisational theory and politics, Jan-Erik Lane presents new public management from an analytical perspective.

Book Ethics and Integrity in Public Administration  Concepts and Cases

Download or read book Ethics and Integrity in Public Administration Concepts and Cases written by Raymond W Cox and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ethics and Integrity in Public Administration" presents cutting-edge perspectives on the role of ethics in public sector management - what it is and where it is going. The contributors include a cross-section of authoritative authors from around the globe, and from both the academy and government. They cover a wide range of topics, diverse theoretical and conceptual paradigms, and global examples, and provide a broader view than what is typically offered in other books. The book includes both theoretical insights and commentaries grounded in practice. Chapters are divided into three parts: Ethical Foundations and Perspectives, Ethical Management and Ethical Leadership, and International and Comparative Perspectives.

Book Practical Ethics In Public Administration

Download or read book Practical Ethics In Public Administration written by Dean Gueras and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Make the Right Choice - Enhance Your Ethical Decision Making Skills Today! Ethical issues arise in all walks of life, but none have implications as far-reaching and serious as those related to public management. Most people working in the public sector want to do the "right" thing, but the issues can be highly complex or just not lend themselves to easy answers. Practical Ethics in Public Administration, Third Edition, provides the tools, techniques, and methods needed to help meet these challenges. This completely updated third edition provides public sector professionals the information they need to face the ethical issues that arise in the course of a day's work, address those issues with greater self-assurance, perform their duties in an ethically justifiable manner, and explain their actions reasonably. This new edition: • Covers emerging ethical issues surrounding public-private partnerships • Examines the shift from compliance-based to integrity-based ethics programs • Explores the context of moral competency

Book Ethics Management for Public Administrators

Download or read book Ethics Management for Public Administrators written by Donald C. Menzel and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As with the first edition, this practical book is dedicated to building organizations of integrity. It has been written for students contemplating careers in public service, elected and appointed officials, administrators, and career public servants in America and abroad. Concise and comprehensive, Ethics Management for Public Administrators takes a public management perspective toward constructing ethical organizations. It includes: --an introduction to ethics management; --a discussion of the U.S. Constitutional and administrative environment in which officials carry out their duties; --descriptions and assessments of the tools available to elected and appointed officials who are committed to building ethical organizations; --a review of existing ethics management programs in American cities and counties; --an overview of legislative and administrative measures taken by Congress, presidents, the judiciary, and the fifty states to foster ethical governance; --unique coverage of ethics management around the world, with a focus on Europe and Asia; --hands-on skill-building exercises that conclude each chapter with active learning opportunities. Changes in the second edition include updated text and references, new examples, and new boxes and exhibits that appear throughout the text.

Book Public Administration Ethics for the 21st Century

Download or read book Public Administration Ethics for the 21st Century written by J. Michael Martinez and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-08-10 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume establishes a foundation for a uniform code of professional ethics for public administrators in the United States. Public Administration Ethics for the 21st Century lays the ethical foundations for a uniform professional code of ethics for public administrators, civil servants, and non-profit administrators in the US. Martinez synthesizes five disparate schools of ethical thought as to how public administrators can come to know the good and behave in ways that advance the values of citizenship, equity, and public interest within their respective organizations. Using case studies, he teaches American administrators how to combine the approaches of all five schools to evaluate and resolve complex ethical dilemmas within the constraints of the U.S. democratic values set. Martinez enunciates the common ethical principles that guide public administrators in their practice within the specific ethical parameters and organizational cultures of a myriad entities at the federal, state, and local levels of government in the United States, as well as in non-profit organizations. Along the way, Martinez addresses a number of crucial issues, including personal gain, conflict of interest, transparency, democratic impartiality, hiring, hierarchical discipline, media relations, partisan pressure, appointments by elected officials, and whistle-blowing. The striking, high-profile case studies—Nathan Bedford Forrest, Adolph Eichmann, Lieutenant William Calley, and Mary Ann Wright—illustrate ethical dilemmas where, for better or worse, the individual was at odds with the organization.

Book Ethics in Fiscal Administration

Download or read book Ethics in Fiscal Administration written by Angela Pool-Funai and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-11 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethics in Fiscal Administration: An Introduction integrates ethics into the public administration curriculum by weaving ethical dilemmas into the financial management and budgeting process of the public and nonprofit sectors. Inquiry-based discussion prompts challenge students to examine scenarios that they are likely to encounter in professional public service careers. Critics of the public sector often use the analogy that government should be run more like a business. Issues such as profitability versus social value preclude the public sector from becoming a mirror image of the private sector; however, ethical decision making in fiscal administration is an important concern across sectors. Using examples drawn from the public and nonprofit arenas, Ethics in Fiscal Administration: An Introduction will help prepare future budget managers and other public administrators for the important work of upholding the public financial trust.

Book Ethics and Management in the Public Sector

Download or read book Ethics and Management in the Public Sector written by Alan Lawton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public services are delivered through an often bewildering range of agencies and amidst this constant change, there are fears that a public service ethos, a tradition of working in the public interest, becomes blurred. This book covers important themes reflecting current thinking and illuminates the practical decisions made by public officials. Replete with international case studies and vignettes, this easy-to-use textbook is a definitive guide for postgraduate students of public sector ethics, as well as students of public management and administration more generally.

Book Public Service Ethics

Download or read book Public Service Ethics written by James S. Bowman and published by CQ Press. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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?” In Public Service Ethics: Individual and Institutional Responsibilities, James Bowman and Jonathan West examine individual-centered and organization-focused ethics, applying ideas and ideals from both to contemporary dilemmas. The authors take on controversial issues—from whistle blowing incidents to corruption exposés—to explain how they arise and suggest what can be done about them. They start with the conceptual tools students need to evaluate an ethical dilemma, then analyze individual decision making strategies, and go on to assess institutional ethics programs. The emphasis is not only on the “how to,” but also on the “why.” The ultimate goal is to bolster students’ confidence and prepare them for the ethical problems they will face in the future, by equipping them with the conceptual frameworks and context to approach thorny questions and behave ethically.

Book Managing in the Public Sector

Download or read book Managing in the Public Sector written by Brett Sharp and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Casebooks in public administration have become intensely sophisticated with complex scenarios, richly detailed multi-step simulations, and demanding role playing requirements. While these types of cases and exercises have their place, Managing in the Public Sector is a casebook designed with maximum instructor flexibility and student engagement in mind. Featuring cases brief enough to be covered in the last few minutes of a class as well as those substantive enough to last the entire hour, this book allows instructors to illustrate theoretical concepts, encourage active student participation, to make a transition between topics, or to integrate different approaches to administrative study. Retaining the first edition’s use of focused, real-life-inspired cases to help elucidate the application of concepts for students, the second edition has been updated and revised throughout to include: An expanded chapter on ethical analysis A new section on how to make logical arguments Thoroughly updated cases as well as many new contemporary cases New chapter introductions featuring overviews of major leadership and ethical theories to provide students with the context they need Discussion questions at the end of each case to facilitate critical analysis and classroom discussion A cross-listing of all cases and subject matter in an appendix for quick topical reference. Now even more enmeshed in the literature of ethics, leadership, and public administration, Managing in the Public Sector, 2e provides authentic, hands-on experience of the decisions public administrators must face. It is an ideal casebook to supplement undergraduate and graduate public administration, leadership, human resource management, or administrative ethics courses.

Book Ethics in Public Administration

Download or read book Ethics in Public Administration written by Meriem Doucette and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-31 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethics in Public Administration: Understanding Ethics, Corruption, and Public Policy provides students with a timely and valuable collection of articles, essays, and case studies regarding ethical challenges, expectations, and opportunities in public administration. The collection begins with an introduction to the foundations of ethics in public administration and explores the definition and meaning of ethics as a concept. In later chapters, students read about the relationship between ethics and the law, as well as the delicate interplay between ethics, public service, public careers, and Constitutional practice. Additional sections of the anthology examine corruption in government and the ethical dimensions of decision making. Each chapter presents readers with an ethical dilemma to spark critical thought and self-reflection, an introduction to the featured readings, and a case study to demonstrate the real-world implications of topics addressed within the chapter. Providing valuable insight into complex contemporary issues, Ethics in Public Administration is an ideal resource for courses in public administration. Meriem Doucette is an assistant professor of public administration at California State University, Fullerton. She holds doctoral and master's degrees in public administration and policy from the University of Georgia. Dr. Doucette's research interests include performance feedback, the roles of discount rates and time preferences in decision making, public and private sector comparisons, and educational policy. David Adams is an assistant professor of public administration at California State University, Fullerton. He holds doctoral and master's degrees in public administration and policy from Auburn University. Dr. Adams' research interests include environmental policy, federalism and intergovernmental relations, collaborative governance, social networks, American political institutions, and public service ethics.

Book Ethics in Public Administration

Download or read book Ethics in Public Administration written by Patrick J. Sheeran and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1993-04-30 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethics in Public Administration provides public administrators with a theoretical knowledge of ethical principles and a practical framework for applying them. Sheeran reviews the place of ethics in philosophy, links it to political and administrative theory and practice, and analyzes the ethical theories and concepts from which ethical principles are derived. Before delving into ethics as part of philosophy, Sheeran provides the reader with a brief overview of philosophy and its principal subjects, including ontology, epistemology, and psychology. He offers several definitions of ethics, and discusses both the objectivist (absolutist) and interpretivist (situation ethics) perspectives. Sheeran focuses on the subject matter of ethics, human actions, and their morality, exploring Natural Law, man-made law, and conscience as sources for determining the morality of human action. In later chapters, he applies his discussion of ethics to such controversial policy issues as suicide, murder, abortion, sterilization, capital punishment, war, lying, and strikes. Recommended for graduate and upper division undergraduate courses in public administration, public policy, management, and administrative behavior.

Book Value and Virtue in Public Administration

Download or read book Value and Virtue in Public Administration written by Michiel S. de Vries and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-10-17 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A multidisciplinary analysis of the role of values and virtue in public administration, this book calls for a rediscovery of virtue. It explores ways of enabling the public sector to balance the values that are presently dominant with classic values such as accountability, representation, equality, neutrality, transparency and the public interest.

Book Classics Of Administrative Ethics

Download or read book Classics Of Administrative Ethics written by Willa Marie Bruce and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 2001-04-04 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology will be appropriate for administrative ethics classes and professional thinking in public administration at both the masters and doctoral levels. It is a collection of administrative et