Start looking now for anewspaper or magazine story about ethics in government.report that describes some of the concepts we are studying. Find some article about the head of an agency or a school district or ministry or city or county and how they are in an ethically sensitive situation. In the presentation tell us about the case and link it with at least5 DIFFERENT things you’ve learned in the course itself.
You can use any case of public administration ethics you want good deeds or bad deeds. The only exception is the case of the City Manager of Thousand Oaks who was fired. You can read his story but don’t use that case in your presentation.The reason is that he will be speaking to our class about that case
When you find the story or case you want to use think of some of the things we’ve been talking about. Here are some of them: How the story help about 5 DIFFERENT things
objective responsibility
subjective responsibility
role conflict
ability to defend a decision
what principles and values were violated
conflict of interest
public interest
need to discuss different values to reach some common goal
teaching the citizen
learning from the politician
expressive ethics
moral code
ethical analysis
agency-politician transactions
agency-agency transactions
agency-interest group transactions
and more. Review the powerpoints for concepts if you can’t think of any that fit your case.
You’re presentation will be short 5 or 10 minutes at most. than tell us the concepts from the course you found in that story looking at us speaking loudly and being an expert on that story for us. ;o)
Let me know if you have any questions about this. I hope your days goes well!