Ethics 90-97p

According to Bush, the quality of government tasks has no impact on people's lives.

Mary Ellen Guy believes that mediocrity is acceptable when pursuing excellence.

A posture of competence implies a commitment to maintaining the status quo.

Competence is a fixed goal that is easily achieved in professional public service.

Managers in public service are expected to always meet the standard of excellence.

Making government more businesslike is not a goal rooted in professional public service.

Competence should not be a priority for public management according to the text.

Public management should operate in a 'culture of performance' based on the text.

Ethical decision making should be centralized, according to the text.

Detailed, hard-and-fast rules always empower public service, according to the text.

American public administrators have always followed consistent ethical precepts throughout history, according to the text.

Managers in public service often request more direction and definite rules based on law or duty, as stated in the text.

The protest letter from scientists at the EPA led to the ban of data from Nazi experiments on humans in an EPA report.

The debate surrounding the use of phosgene data focused solely on its reliability rather than its ethical implications.

One toxicologist argued that using tainted data could be justified if it helped save lives, while another emphasized the importance of ethical data collection.

The Peter Principle suggests that bureaucratic organizations become inherently inept due to promoting inadequate employees.

According to Alt and Weinstein (2003), using tainted data for societal benefit raises questions about its ethical implications.

Parkinson's Law states that work contracts to fit the time available for its completion.

Boren's testimony to a House subcommittee advised 'When in trouble, ponder; when in doubt, delegate; when in charge, mumble.'

Ethical neutrality in public bureaucracies allows public managers to follow their own moral principles.

The 'ethic of neutrality' suggests that morality should guide public managers in their decision-making processes.

Public managers and employees should embrace bureaucracy's inaccurate street image according to the text.

Self-Victimization Bureaucrat bashing is portrayed as an entertaining sport in the United States.

A can-do attitude of competence encourages managers to disparage public employees according to the text.

Managers should tolerate incompetence as business as usual according to the text.

A dissenting memorandum can be considered irresponsible, ineffective, and cowardly when making ethical decisions.

Cooperating solely to support one's child without considering the ethical implications is an acceptable course of action.

Parental obligations should always take precedence over other responsibilities.

Blaming others by pointing to common practices is a valid excuse in ethical reasoning.

According to Thomas Paine, habituating to a wrong action can make it appear right.

Hypocrisy is praised as a virtue according to Duc de La Rochefoucauld.