Practical Ethics in Public Administration - Softcover

Geuras, Dean; Garofalo, Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1567261612 ISBN 13: 9781567261615

Publisher: Kogan Page, 2005

Synopsis

Practical Ethics in Public Administration is a skillful blend of theory and practice, with many case examples taken from daily public service. Students will be introduced to historical ethical theories - and how they combine in a unified ethical approach that can be applied to everyday situations. They'll learn the ethical nature of questions such as whether to fire an employee...how to allocate departmental funds...how to rate an employee on a yearly evaluation...policies of confidentiality...and more.

The new second edition features updated examples, guidelines, and hypothetical cases...two new chapters, one on how to address conflict by applying the unified ethic and a second on the ethics involved in leadership development...and new discussions of personal and professional issues such as new public management and creating public value.

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About the Authors

Dean Geuras is Professor of Philosophy at Texas State University. In addition to articles in his own field of philosophy, Dr. Geuras has authored several interdisciplinary publications in the fields of theology, counseling, and, in collaboration with Dr. Charles Garofalo, ethics in public administration. Their previous book, Ethics in the Public Service: The Moral Mind at Work, was selected among the top academic titles of the year 2000 by Choice magazine.

Charles Garofalo is Professor of Political Science at Texas State University. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in public administration ethics, public policy, business-government relations, and comparative public administration. His research focuses on administrative ethics, with recent publications including Ethics in the Public Service: The Moral Mind at Work (with Dean Geuras). He also has published in a number of journals, including the American Review of Public Administration, the International Journal of Public Sector Management, the Innovation Journal, the Journal of Management History, and Global Virtue Ethics Review . His career also includes both governmental and university administration.

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Chapter 1: The Real World

Chapter 2: Why Is Ethics in the Public Sector Different from Ethics in the Private Sector?

Chapter 3: What Is Ethics, Anyway?:

Chapter 4: Raising the Right Questions: Ethical Approaches to Five Important Cases

Chapter 5: The Real World Revisited

Chapter 6: Who Am I? Who Do I Want to Be? What Do I Want?

Chapter 7:Making Choices

Chapter 8: Problems that Might Arise and How to Analyze Them

Chapter 9: Developing an Ethical Style: How Would You Analyze Problems that Might Arise

Chapter 10: Addressing Public Ethical Conflict by Means of the Unified Ethic

Chapter 11: Leadership Development and Moral Agency in Contemporary Governance

Chapter 12: Perspectives on Contemporary Reform: Reinventing Government and the New Public Management

Chapter 13: Ethics, Quality, and Performance

Chapter 14: Wrap-Up and Key Points

Edition details

• Publisher: Kogan Page
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1567261612
• ISBN 13: 9781567261615
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 362