Ethics 70-80p

The obligation to maintain the public trust must result in spouting sanctimonious platitudes.

Public managers should always expect special treatment from the media.

Using common sense is not necessary for public managers.

Establishing ethical credibility involves breaking in media novices to establish a good working relationship.

Professional standards may always urge anonymity for public managers.

Public managers should never tell it as it should be according to the text.

Lying is considered ethical and practical in dealing with the media.

The key to handling mistakes is to admit them and ensure they are not repeated.

Ethics completely prevents errors from occurring.

The final proposal in the text advocates for self-protection over plea bargaining.

Senior managers are not responsible for protecting blameless subordinates who are unjustly accused.

Managers are advised against showing compassion in situations where it serves their interests.

Joe, a civil engineer and public works director, invited neighbors and friends to his home for cocktails.

Joe collapsed in the living room due to excessive holiday spirits.

Closed questions in ethics encourage analysis.

Joe's drinking habit affecting his job performance would not change answers to ethical questions.

Joe making racist remarks during the party would not change answers to ethical questions.

The size of the city where Joe is chief administrative officer affects ethical choices.

General Peers praised the justice system for bringing justice to those who inflicted the atrocity.

William Wilson was not surprised by the public's reaction to Rusty Calley.

The American response to the My Lai massacre was compared to the Soviet Union's response to the disaster at Hiroshima.

Pravda, the Soviet Communist Party’s newspaper, blamed plant managers for ignoring safety measures after the nuclear accident at Chernobyl.

The charges against plant managers in the Chernobyl disaster included accusations of promoting safety measures.

The pressure from Moscow on plant managers was mainly focused on environmental conservation.

Andrei Sakharov attributed universal significance to the tragedy at Abu Ghraib prison

The U.S. Senate unanimously passed a resolution condemning the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison in March 2004

The Army general's report in March 2004 praised the noble actions of American soldiers and interrogators

The failure in leadership identified in the Senate testimony was due to lack of supervision

Donald Rumsfeld expressed disappointment upon discovering the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison

The acts of violence against detainees were conducted within the bounds of international laws and the Geneva Convention