Achieving Ethical Competence for Public Service Leadership - Hardcover

Cooper, Terry L

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0765632454 ISBN 13: 9780765632456

Publisher: Routledge, 2013

Synopsis

This book shows students entering the public service as well as professionals in the field how to become ethically competent to provide the leadership needed to advance the public interest. The book doesn't just talk about ethics. The contributors describe how ethical competence should guide organizational conduct. All chapters are original, and written by experts in the PA field for this book.

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About the Author

Terry L. Cooper is the Maria B. Crutcher Professor in Citizenship and Democratic Values at the University of Southern California Sol Price School of Public Policy. Cooper’s research focuses on civic engagement and public ethics. He is the director of the USC Civic Engagement Initiative and the author of The Responsible Administrator: An Approach to Ethics for the Administrative Role, 6th ed. (Jossey-Bass, 2012) and An Ethic of Citizen[1]ship for Public Administration (Prentice Hall, 1991). In addition, Cooper is the editor of the Handbook of Administrative Ethics, 2d ed. (Marcel Dekker, 2001) and the co-editor of Exemplary Public Administrators (Jossey-Bass, 1992). He has published numerous articles in scholarly journals, including Public Administration Review, Administration & Society, and the American Review of Public Administration. His current research is on the homeowner association movement in China as an emerging expression of civil society in that country.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0765632454
• ISBN 13: 9780765632456
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 312