The authors of the 11 chapters presented here by Cooper (U. of Southern California) and Menzel (emeritus, Northern Illinois U.) were charged with thinking "widely and creatively about ethical competence--how it might be achieved and how ethical competence contributes to effective public service leadership" and have penned their contributions in relation to the recent adoption of competency-based standards for master's degree granting programs in public affairs and administration by the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration. The contributions have been organized into sections focusing on ethical competence and leadership, pedagogical approaches and methods to achieve ethical competence, and ethical competence within and across professions. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
This book shows students entering the public service as well as professionals in the field how to become ethically competent to provide the leadership needed to advance the public interest. The book doesn't just talk about ethics. The contributors describe how ethical competence should guide organizational conduct. All chapters are original, and written by experts in the PA field for this book.
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1 In Pursuit of Ethical Competence |
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Part I Ethical Competence and Leadership |
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2 A New Definition and Conceptualization of Ethical Competence |
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3 From Ethical Competence to Ethical Leadership |
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4 Ethical Competence in Business Leadership |
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Part II Pedagogical Approaches and Methods to Achieve Ethical Competence |
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5 Developing Ethical Competence: An Integrated Pedagogical Method |
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6 Advancing Ethical Competence Through Pedagogy |
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Part III Ethical Competence Within and Across Professions |
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7 Ethical Competence in Social Work |
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8 Ethical Competence and Professionalism in Public Administration |
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9 Ethical Competence for Public Service Lawyers |
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10 Ethical Competence in Nonprofit Organizations: A Human Resources Perspective |
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| About the Editors and Contributors |
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Terry L. Cooper is the Maria B. Crutcher Professor in Citizenship and Democratic Values at the University of Southern California Sol Price School of Public Policy. Coopers research focuses on civic engagement and public ethics. He is the director of the USC Civic Engagement Initiative and the author of The Responsible Administrator: An Approach to Ethics for the Administrative Role, 6th ed. (Jossey-Bass, 2012) and An Ethic of Citizen[ 1]ship for Public Administration (Prentice Hall, 1991). In addition, Cooper is the editor of the Handbook of Administrative Ethics, 2d ed. (Marcel Dekker, 2001) and the co-editor of Exemplary Public Administrators (Jossey-Bass, 1992). He has published numerous articles in scholarly journals, including Public Administration Review, Administration & Society, and the American Review of Public Administration. His current research is on the homeowner association movement in China as an emerging expression of civil society in that country.
