The Moral Heart Of Public Service

Author : Claire Foster-Gilbert
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1784505404
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Moral Heart of Public Service written by Claire Foster-Gilbert and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2017-06-21 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now more than ever, public servants must consider and reassess how to keep moral courage in public life alive. With ethical expectations and needs changing and government policies under increasing moral scrutiny, Claire Foster-Gilbert of Westminster Abbey Institute gathers a series of essays and lectures by herself and others, exploring the meaning of 'moral code' in today's public service, and how it can be rekindled in practice. Timely and timeless, the book is founded on traditional values of honesty, moral rigour and neighbourliness, and discusses how to champion stability, peace, community and virtue in contemporary public life. The authors, including eminent figures such as the former President of Ireland Mary McAleese, historian Peter Hennessy, former First Secretary of State William Hague and former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, explain how realistic compromises can be balanced with clear goal-setting for ideal results. Forward-thinking and authoritative, this book will be a precious resource to anyone seeking to boost the circulation of integrity throughout all aspects of public life.

Author : Carol W. Lewis
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118228766
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ethics Challenge in Public Service written by Carol W. Lewis and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-04-18 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thoroughly revised and updated third edition of The Ethics Challenge in Public Service is the classic ethics text used in public management programs nationwide. It also serves as a valuable tool for public managers who work in a world that presents more ethical challenges every day. It contains a wealth of practical tools and strategies that public managers can use when making ethical choices in the ambiguous pressured world of public service. The book contains new material on topics including social networking, the use of apology, ethics as applied to public policy, working with elected officials, and more.

Author : Richard C. Box
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131750755X
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Public Service Values written by Richard C. Box and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-08 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public service values are too rarely discussed in public administration courses and scholarship, despite recent research demonstrating the importance of these values in the daily decision making processes of public service professionals. A discussion of these very tenets and their relevance to core public functions, as well as which areas might elicit value conflicts for public professionals, is central to any comprehensive understanding of budget and finance, human resource management, and strategic planning in the public sector. Public Service Values is written specifically for graduate and undergraduate courses in public administration, wherever a discussion of public service ideals might enrich the learning experience and offer students a better understanding of daily practice. Exploring the meaning and application of specific values, such as Neutrality, Efficiency, Accountability, Public Service, and Public Interest, provides students and future professionals with a ‘workplace toolkit’ for the ethical delivery of public services. Well-grounded in scholarly literature and with a relentless focus on the public service professional, Public Service Values highlights the importance of values in professional life and encourages a more self-aware and reflective public practice. Case studies to stimulate reflection are interwoven throughout the book and application to practice is cemented in a final section devoted to value themes in professional life as well as a chapter dedicated to holding oneself accountable. The result is a book that challenges us to embrace the necessity of public service values in our public affairs curricula and that asks the important questions current public service professionals should make a habit of routinely applying in their daily decision making.

Author : John Anthony Rohr
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Public Service, Ethics, and Constitutional Practice written by John Anthony Rohr and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For civil servants who take an oath to uphold the Constitution, that document is the supreme symbol of political morality. Constitutional issues are addressed by civil servants every day, whenever a policeman arrests a suspect or members of different branches of government meet. But how well do these individuals really understand the Constitution's application in their jobs? This book encourages civil servants to reflect on specific constitutional principles and events and learn to apply them to the decisions they make. Twenty seminal articles by a preeminent scholar seek to legitimate public service by grounding its ethics in constitutional practice. John Rohr stresses that ethical practice demands an immersion in the specifics of our constitutional tradition, and he offers a guide to attaining a greater sense of those constitutional principles that can be translated into action. Along the way he considers such timely issues as financial disclosure, the treatment of civil servants as second-class citizens, and instances of civil servants caught between executive and legislative forces. Rohr's opening essays demonstrate that responsible use of administrative discretion is the key issue for career civil servants. Subsequent sections examine approaches to training civil servants using constitutional principles; character formation resulting from study of the constitutional tradition; and the ethical choices that are sometimes posed by separation of powers. A final group of chapters shows how a study of other countries' constitutional traditions can deepen an understanding of our own, while a closing essay looks at past issues and future prospects in administrative ethics from the perspective of Rohr's long involvement in the field. Throughout this insightful collection, Rohr seeks to remind public servants of the nobility of their calling, reinforce their role in articulating public interests against the excesses of private concerns, and encourage managers to make greater use of constitutional language to describe their everyday activities. Although his work focuses on the federal career civil servant, it also offers valuable lessons applicable to state and local civil servants, elected officials, judges, military personnel, and those employed in the nonprofit sector.

Author : James S. Bowman
Publisher : CQ Press
ISBN 13 : 1483312569
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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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 369 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.

Author : Charles Garofalo
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780878407378
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethics in the Public Service written by Charles Garofalo and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Serving the public interest with integrity requires a moral perspective that can rise above the day-to-day pressures of the job. This book integrates Western philosophy's most significant ethical theories and merges them with public administration theory to provide public administrators with an explicit moral foundation for ethical decision making. Ethics in the Public Service reviews moral thought through the ages, from Plato to Rorty, and makes the philosophies of the more difficult thinkers accessible to both students and practitioners. Unifying seemingly disparate ethical positions, including those of Aristotle, Kant, and Mill, the authors defend the idea of objective moral truth and critique subjectivist views, refuting postmodernism and ethical relativism. Using their integrated objective approach, they tackle such dichotomies in public administration theory as bureaucracy vs. democracy, and they also examine a case study in an administrative setting. Offering a better understanding of moral dilemmas rather than a formula, this book presents scholars and practitioners with a framework that is both objective and flexible, theoretical and practical. This original synthesis provides a comprehensive basis for administrative thought and action.

Author : Chapman Richard A. Chapman
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474465668
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethics in Public Service written by Chapman Richard A. Chapman and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, by a group of specially selected scholars, focuses on topics of current debate in the field of public service ethics. The subjects covered include codes of ethics, how ethics can be taught, the dilemma of tragic choices, administrative discretion and the protection of human rights, the interests of the state, secrecy and freedom of information, the democratic environment, and the relevance of the law and trade unions.

Author : Kathryn G. Denhardt
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ethics of Public Service written by Kathryn G. Denhardt and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1988-01-13 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Denhard presents a sensible organizational framework that includes (a) the individual administrator and the organizational context; (b) the distinction between process and content ethics, and (c) the dichotomy between deotological and teleological moral claims." Choice

Author : Vera Vogelsang-Coombs
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113749400X
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Political Ethics of Public Service written by Vera Vogelsang-Coombs and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-05-05 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a defense of democratic politics in American public service and offers the political ethics of public service as a realistic and optimistic alternative to the cynical American view toward politics and public service. The author’s alternative helps career public servants regain public trust by exercising constitutionally centered moral and political leadership that balances the regime values of liberty and equality in governing American society while contributing to the ethical progress of the nation. She identifies three distinct leadership styles of political ethics, enabling career public servants to reconcile their personal loyalties, morality, and consciences with the public and private morality of American society and their constitutional obligations to secure the democratic freedoms of Americans. Recognizing career public servants’ moral and institutional struggles, the book proposes a rigorous leadership development program to acclimate individuals to workplace psychological, moral, and political challenges. The view offered here is that career public servants must be a part of, rather than isolated from, American politics to be effective on the job.

Author : Michael S. Josephson
Publisher : Unlimited Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 1588321347
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Preserving the Public Trust written by Michael S. Josephson and published by Unlimited Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2005 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Josephson Institute of Ethics has developed five core principles that are keys to success in all spheres of public service. This volume examines each in turn: public interest, independent objective judgment, public accountability, democratic leadership, and responsibility and fitness for office.