Ethics 10-20p

Being a public servant means using public positions to serve personal roles.

Nepotism is acceptable if one is a parent.

Ethical problems can be easily resolved with a winner-takes-all approach.

Role diagnosis is the only tool necessary to avoid conflicts of interest.

Conflicts of interest damage independent and impartial decision-making.

The separation of public and personal life reinforces ethical duties.

Professionalism encompasses values such as excellence, quality, competence, and merit.

Ethics is solely about having an independent place to sit.

ASPA's code emphasizes promoting constitutional principles of inequality.

Professionalism does not require credentials or expert knowledge.

Ethics is an armchair activity that does not require decisive action.

ASPA's code does not address the public's right to know the public's business.

Michael Harmon's 'theory of countervailing responsibility' categorizes opposing aspects of administrative responsibility into three types: the political, professional, and personal.

Dwight Waldo's catalogue includes a sphere of ethical claims related to technology.

According to Waldo, 'profession and professionalism' is one of the twelve spheres of ethical claims on the public servant.

Waldo's catalogue does not encompass claims related to the public interest or general welfare.

Harmon's theory asserts that actions can only be correct from one standpoint, not multiple ones.

A diagnostic roadmap helps in understanding the various values, standards, and obligations in modern public service.

Exhibit 1.2 displays the equation D+P+E=Iii.

The values of democracy listed include justice, partiality, and honesty.

Professionalism emphasizes qualities like self-awareness, self-understanding, and self-preservation.

The map classifying values and obligations in public service is a universal taxonomy.

The categories of values and obligations in public service are discrete and comprehensive according to Exhibit 1.3.

The arenas in public service include types of values and standards illustrated by a democracy-productivity continuum.

The justice-compassion continuum illustrates how people are treated and the manager's preferred units of analysis.

The manager's conduct is exemplified on a public service-personal continuum that identifies the dominant obligations of a public servant.

The types of values and standards in public service encompass accountability, efficiency, competence, and public demand.

The justice-compassion continuum in public service emphasizes uniformity, standardization, and precedent as key elements.

The democracy-productivity continuum includes representativeness, expertise, merit, and citizen access as values and standards in public service.