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Ethics education is one of the major ways of fostering ethical behavior in the public service, which, in tandem with other approaches, should bring about a public dialogue on the ethics of administrative decision-making. The performance of ethics education must be measured against stated objectives, including the promotion of public trust and confidence, the elimination of unethical practices, and the imposition of sanctions for unethical behavior. A workshop can be used to implement ethics education for public administrators. When running a workshop, the facilitator should provide advance reading; emphasize frankness and confidentiality; provide an analytical framework; and use a wide variety of teaching devices, including cases and role plays.
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There is much debate about the usefulness of the concept and practice of empowerment in public sector organizations. It is important, therefore, to examine the origins and meaning of empowerment, the extent to which it has been introduced in Canadian public organizations, and the obstacles to its successful implementation. It is important also to analyse the political and managerial implications of empowering employees and organizations and to assess the compatibility of empowerment with the constitutional convention of ministerial responsibility. Effective implementation of empowerment is a difficult, risky endeavor, but the payoff is likely to be worth the price. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)
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The University of Toronto's MBA program has a course on ethical analysis that is designed to allow students to develop an ethical framework for analyzing organizational behavior. The ethical framework has three major elements of analysis: analytical techniques, problems and dilemmas, and values. With the dilemmas and problems analytical framework, students learn to identify conflicts of interest, problems of confidentiality and rights, and abuses of power. Students learn that values underlie ethics and that ethics are the product of values. Six-minute videos are used to illustrate different types of dilemmas, and case studies are used in later sessions.
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