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According to Bush, the quality of government tasks has no impact on people's lives.
False
Mary Ellen Guy believes that mediocrity is acceptable when pursuing excellence.
False
A posture of competence implies a commitment to maintaining the status quo.
False
Competence is a fixed goal that is easily achieved in professional public service.
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Managers in public service are expected to always meet the standard of excellence.
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Making government more businesslike is not a goal rooted in professional public service.
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Competence should not be a priority for public management according to the text.
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Public management should operate in a 'culture of performance' based on the text.
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Ethical decision making should be centralized, according to the text.
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Detailed, hard-and-fast rules always empower public service, according to the text.
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American public administrators have always followed consistent ethical precepts throughout history, according to the text.
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Managers in public service often request more direction and definite rules based on law or duty, as stated in the text.
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The protest letter from scientists at the EPA led to the ban of data from Nazi experiments on humans in an EPA report.
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The debate surrounding the use of phosgene data focused solely on its reliability rather than its ethical implications.
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One toxicologist argued that using tainted data could be justified if it helped save lives, while another emphasized the importance of ethical data collection.
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The Peter Principle suggests that bureaucratic organizations become inherently inept due to promoting inadequate employees.
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According to Alt and Weinstein (2003), using tainted data for societal benefit raises questions about its ethical implications.
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Parkinson's Law states that work contracts to fit the time available for its completion.
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Boren's testimony to a House subcommittee advised 'When in trouble, ponder; when in doubt, delegate; when in charge, mumble.'
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Ethical neutrality in public bureaucracies allows public managers to follow their own moral principles.
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The 'ethic of neutrality' suggests that morality should guide public managers in their decision-making processes.
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Public managers and employees should embrace bureaucracy's inaccurate street image according to the text.
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Self-Victimization Bureaucrat bashing is portrayed as an entertaining sport in the United States.
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A can-do attitude of competence encourages managers to disparage public employees according to the text.
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Managers should tolerate incompetence as business as usual according to the text.
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A dissenting memorandum can be considered irresponsible, ineffective, and cowardly when making ethical decisions.
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Cooperating solely to support one's child without considering the ethical implications is an acceptable course of action.
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Parental obligations should always take precedence over other responsibilities.
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Blaming others by pointing to common practices is a valid excuse in ethical reasoning.
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According to Thomas Paine, habituating to a wrong action can make it appear right.
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Hypocrisy is praised as a virtue according to Duc de La Rochefoucauld.
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