
Author : James H. Svara
Pages : 260 pages
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Language :
ISBN-10 : 1449619010
ISBN-13 : 9781449619015
This concise text is a reader friendly primer to the fundamentals of administrative responsibility and ethics. Your students will come away with a clear understanding of why ethics are important to administrators in governmental and non-profit organizations, and how these administrators can relate their own personal values to the norms of the public sector. Since the publication of the first edition of The Ethics Primer, there has been significant change in the climate of public affairs that impacts the discussion of ethics for those who serve the public in governmental and nonprofit organizations. The new edition reflects those changes in three major areas: - Ethics in an era of increasing tension between political leaders and administrators over the role and size of government. - Ethical choices in making fiscal cuts or imposing new taxes in the face of the greatest economic crisis since the Depression. - Ethical challenges to established practices in public organizations. The