Readings & Videos: Week 8 – Challenges to the Ethical Behavior of Public Administrators
Challenges to the Ethical Behavior of Public Administrators
Please note this is Week 8, the videos were completed before the schedule was changed.
Week 7 Introduction (Links to an external site.)
Videos
Wk 1 – Obstacles to Moral Behavior (Links to an external site.)
What Makes Unethical Behavior Contagious? (Links to an external site.)
Concepts Unwrapped | Cognitive Dissonance (Links to an external site.)
Ethics Defined: Corruption (Links to an external site.)
Concepts Unwrapped | Implicit Bias (Links to an external site.)
Ethics Defined: Rationalizations (Links to an external site.)
Ethics Defined: Self-Serving Bias (Links to an external site.)
Ethics Defined: Obedience to Authority (Links to an external site.)
Readings
The two below articles will serve as a good guide or your paper this week, it also reinforces those topics covered in the videos above:
• Dornsife – Obstacles to Moral Decision-Making.pdf
Actions
• Unavoidable Ethical Dilemmas for Public Officials (Links to an external site.)
The following article is interesting in terms of reflecting on how systemic corruption presents a dilemma in terms of what actions we have taken to address is:
• When Does Politicians’ Unethical Behavior Become a Crime?
