Management, Organisation, and Ethics in the Public Sector

Patrick Bishop, Carmel Connors

Contents: Ethics in a Changing Context: The new public sector: changing management, organization, and ethics, Patrick Bishop and Carmel Connors; Ethics in a changing state - problems and opportunities, R.F.I. Smith; Great expectations - but whose? Stakeholder theory and its implications for ethical behaviour in public organizations, John Martin; The hubris of principle: what organizational theory and neurophysiology reveal about the limits of ethical principles as guides to responsible action, Michael Harmon; The good, the bad, and the impossible: a psychoanalytic perspective on the discourse of ethics, O.C. McSwite; The matrix of integrity: is it possible to shift the emphasis from compliance to responsibility in changing contexts? - lessons from the United Kingdom, Alan Doig. The Case Studies: Just rhetoric? Exploring the language of leadership, John Uhr; Bureaucracy, power, and ethics, Stewart Clegg and Jon Stokes; The challenge of justice and caring for the organization of the school, Marie Brennan; Ethics in the public sector: listening to the voices of women executives, Brigid Limerick; Isolated agents, Robert Kelso; Creating or maintaining an ethical, effective public organization, Robert Cunningham. Managing For Ethical Outcomes: The three frames and ethics - an education Queensland perspective, Jim Varghese; Public integrity capacity, management theory, and organizational theory, Joseph A. Petrick; Index.