1st Edition
by J. Patrick Dobel (Author)
Designed to help midlevel and senior managers in organizations
dedicated to public purposes, this book provides trained self-awareness
to deploy values to guide decisions and build the culture of their
organizations. The book explores how all managing involves leading and
identifies the levels of ethical responsibility for managerial leaders.
Highlighting
the fundamental role that ethics plays in organizational life, J.
Patrick Dobel uses insights from cognitive and social psychology to
discuss how to anticipate and address threats to integrity and value
informed decision making. Building on traditional ethical theory and
modern research, the book begins with the fundamental assumption that
individuals possess responsibility when they act for ethical purposes
and results in taking a position within a public or nonprofit
organization. This assumption of responsibility recognizes the inherent
discretion in all positions and claims that effective ethical management
requires self-awareness, self-mastery, integrity and a working frame of
one’s values and character. The book pays special attention to the
challenges of integrating diverse people and perspectives in public
organizations as well as attending to the slippages to integrity in
organizational life and how managers and leaders can foresee and address
ethical slippage and corruption. The book provides checklists and
decision frameworks that individuals can adopt and deploy to guide
decisions.
Public Leadership Ethics: A Management Approach will
help create strong value informed cultures supported by communication,
transparency, incentives and strong management cadres to achieve high
quality service and integrity based actions. It will be of special
interest to managerial leaders in public service and teaching in public
administration and policy programs or executive training.
