Practical Ethics In Public Administration (eBook)

Offers the tools, techniques and methods needed to clarify difficult or problematic ethical situations and to determine the best course of action. This book introduces established ethical theories and, using real-life and hypothetical examples, develops a unified ethical approach that can be applied to everyday situations.

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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