Administrative Ethics: Ideas, Sources, and Development

Filling in the content of Administrative ethics will proceed in two stages. In the first stage, we will define ethics in general and Administrative ethics in particular and examine the prevailing or conventional model of ethical thinking among public administrators. This is called the basic ethics model. Subsequently, the major approaches to ethics will be examined in more depth, and an advanced ethical model will be developed. The first questions pursued in this chapter are big ones. What is ethics , and how does Administrative ethics differ from other standards of behavior? Where do ethical standards come from? An important source of standards is philosophy and its major theories of ethics .

Thus, the other dimensions of administrative ethics based on the philosophical traditions of virtue, principle, and consequences are integrally linked to concep-tions of duty. These reflect common patterns of ethical thinking. In the follow-ing section, we will examine how well-established these types of …

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