Product Description: 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...read more

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Product Description: In their second edition of Combating Corruption, Encouraging Ethics, William L. Richter and Frances Burke update this essential staple to delve deeply into the unique ethical problems of twenty-first century public administration...read more

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A publication of the American Society for Public Administration Today's public managers face complex ethical dilemmas, often having to weigh personal and professional values against current public opinion and legal mandates. In a climate of increasing concern over ethical conduct in governmental institutions, administrators confront new challenges in the practice of public service. Through in-depth interviews with public executives, focus group data, philosophical inquiry, and case studies, leading experts in the field of public administration develop an overview of the prevailing ethical environment in the public sector, provide fresh approaches to thinking about government ethics, and offer new strategies for improving ethical decision making. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Since it was first published in 1991, The Ethics Challenge in Public Service has become a classic text used by public managers and in public management programs across the country. This second edition is filled with practical tools and techniques for making ethical choices in the ambiguous, pressured world of public service...read more

A Publication of the American Society for Public Administration Ethics in public service is a hot topic in today's headlines. This detailed guide provides public managers with the practical tools and techniques they need to make ethical choices in the ambiguous pressured world of public service. Shows how applying ethical principles can be a powerful means of clarifying and resolving complex problems in an even more complex world.

Product Description: Charles Lickson has written a valuable guide for proper employee behavior in the workplace. Directed especially toward government personnel, his book provides highly constructive advice on how to approach any job in both the private and public sectors...read more

Product Description: Public service professionals ― government officials, those in the legal system, first responders, and investigators ― confront ethical issues every day. In an environment where each decision can mean the difference between life and death or freedom and imprisonment, deciding on an ethical course of action can pose challenges to even the most seasoned professional...read more

Product Description: Ethical behaviour in the United States public service is scrutinized in this edition of The Annals. The contributors examine topics such as: the origins of those values defining preferable conduct and how those values are expressed; the traditional and contemporary issues accompanying the legislative, executive and judicial institutions of government; the role of interest groups; the ethical problems confronting administrators; the role of the media; educating prospective administrators about ethics; and placing ethical questions in a comparative perspective...read more

Product Description: Sheldon S. Steinberg and David T. Austern focus on the ethical and unethical behavior of elected and appointed government officials. The authors discuss the various types of ethical dilemmas that confront public sector managers, offer ways to analyze them, and describe management strategies designed to prevent unethical behavior...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The book elucidates the fundamental importance of high-quality assessment to student academic well-being and promotes the development of student self-assessment as a critically important life skill.Provides a clear, common sense description of all assessment methods (selected response, essay, performance, and personal communication) and how to align them with relevant achievement targets (knowledge, reasoning, skills, products, and dispositions)...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Integrity With Two Eyes equates the present situation in government with James Q. Wilson and George Kelling's "Broken Windows" theory of crime. Jeffrey J. Knowles suggests that the problems of government follow a systematic deterioration of the function of government...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: A co-publication of the Josephson Institute of Ethics and Unlimited Publishing LLC, this highly useful book brings to life the Josephson Institute's five principles of public service ethics: public interest, independent objective judgment, public accountability, democratic leadership, responsibility and fitness for office...read more

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Terry L. Cooper identifies and illustrates ethical situations encountered in government, focusing on the practical, day-to-day decisions public administrators must make on the job. 'The Responsive Administrator' is designed to help public administrators become more effective decision makers through consciously addressing and systematically confronting ethical issues. The book provides techniques that help managers consider all the factors involved in a decision and ensure that they balance professional, personal, and organizational values.

Product Description: In 1961, President John F. Kennedy signed Executive Order 10930, the first step in a long series of efforts to regulate the ethical behavior of executive branch officials. A few years later Lyndon B. Johnson required all senior officials to report assets and sources of non-government income to the Civil Service Commission...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)