Personal Ethics
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Answer these questions:
- Critically analyze the ethical literature related to public service.
- Describe your initial observations from the assigned readings and media.
- Explain how ethical you believe yourself to be.
- Explain how this course might help to improve your ability to deal with ethical issues.
- Which of these models do you believe is the preferred model, or the model that should be adopted in the US? Why?
Required Reading and media:
Public Service Ethics: Individual and Institutional Responsibilities
Chapter 1, “Pertinence, Practicality, and Poppycock” (pp. 2-20)
Chapter 2, “Perspectives on Ethics” (pp. 20-40)
Bowman, J. S., & West, J. P. (2015).
Blind Spots
Chapter 1, “The Gap between Intended and Actual Ethical Behavior” (pp. 1-23)
Bazerman, M., & Tenbrunsel, A. (2011).
To Serve with Honor: Doing the Right Thing in Government
Chapter 1, “Are You an Ethics Agent?” (pp. 11-21)
Newell, T. (2015).
Do unto others
Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, Faye Wattleton of Planned Parenthood, and Willard Gaylin of the Hastings Center discusses the question of community responsibility.
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Answer previewEthics is a value in life that keeps a person’s behavior and morals in place. They are the principles that determine the character of a person. According to Bowman (2015), ethics is based on principles that push a person to do what’s right or wrong in such of either benefiting oneself, the society, his/her rights or the virtues of life. Personal ethics in the public sector is quite a key component as it determines the kind of decision making a person will make not forgetting that the society depends on it. In this paper, it will unfold the personal ethics of people and how far a person can go to do the right thing individually and to others.
An Analysis of the Ethical Literature Related to Public Service
People get really confused about what’s the right thing to do to benefit others. Ethics is never about your individual play but about the public, it is all about how your sentiments will be, after doing something right. It is true that whenever a person does something wrong ethically, repercussions are always there…
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