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Title Management organisation and ethics in the public sector / edited by Patrick Bishop, Carmen Connors, and Charles Sampford
Published Aldershot : Ashgate, 2003

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Description xii, 293 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Series Law, ethics and governance
Law, ethics and governance.
Contents Part I: Ethics in a Changing Context. 1. The new public sector: changing management, organisation, and ethics / Patrick Bishop and Carmel Connors -- 2. Ethics in a changing state: problems and opportunities / R. F. I. Smith -- 3. Great expectations - but whose? Stakeholder theory and its implications for ethical behaviour in public organisations / John Martin -- 4. The hubris of principle: what organisational theory and neurophysiology reveal about the limits of ethical principles as guides to responsible action / Michael Harmon -- 5. The good, the bad, and the impossible: a psycoanalytic perspective on the discourse of ethics / O. C. McSwite -- 6. The matrix of integrity: it is possible to shift the emphasis from compliance to responsibility in changing contexts? - lessons from the United Kingdom / Alan Doig. Part II: Case Studies. 7. Just rhetoric? Exploring the language of leadership / John Uhr -- 8. Bureaucracy, power and ethics / Stewart Clegg and Jon Stokes -- 9. The challenge of justice and caring for the organisation of the school / Marie Brennan -- 10. Ethics in the public sector: listening to the voices of women executives / Brigid Limerick -- 11. Isolated agents / Robert Kelso -- 12. Creating or maintaining an ethical, effective public organisation / Robert Cunningham. Part III: Managing for Ethical Outcomes. 13. The three frames and ethics: an Education Queensland perspective / Jim Varghese -- 14. Public integrity capacity, management theory, and organisational theory / Joseph A. Petrick
Summary Over the past two decades in Australia and other developed nations, public sector management philosophies and how the public sector is organised have changed dramatically. At the same time, there have been many demands, and several attempts, to preserve and promote ethical behaviour within the public sector - though few go much beyond the publication of a Code. Both developments require an understanding of how public organisations operate in this new environment. Organisational and management theory are seen as providing important potential insights into the opportunities and pitfalls for building ethics into the practices, culture, and norms of public organisations. This book brings together the experience and research of a range of 'reflective practitioners' and 'engaged academics' in public sector management, organisational theory, management theory, public sector ethics and law. It addresses what management and organisation theory might suggest about the nature of public organisations and the institutionalisation of ethics
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes en-aus
In ACQUIRE [electronic resource] : Central Queensland University Institutional Repository
Subject Public administration -- Management -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Bureaucracy -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Public administration -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Genre/Form Book
Author Sampford, C. J. G. (Charles J. G.)
Connors, Carmel.
Bishop, Patrick, 1958 April 4-
LC no. 2003055317
ISBN 0754622800 alkaline paper