Hierarchy, Virtue, and the Practice of Public Administration: A Perspective for Normative Ethics

Cooper, Terry L.

doi:10.2307/975312

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“…2 While other philosophies might be used to evaluate the ethics of at-will employment, these three schools of thought are dominant in the literature on administrative ethics (see Cooper 1987;Frederickson and Ghere 2005;Garofalo and Geuras 1999;Geuras and Garofalo 2002;Richter et al 1990). 3 Use the simplest possible explanation of a problem, and only make it more complex when absolutely necessary.…”

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Lord Acton and Employment Doctrines: Absolute Power and the Spread of At-Will Employment

Bowman

West

2007

J Bus Ethics

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This study analyzes the at-will employment doctrine using a tool that encompasses the complementarity of results-based utilitarian ethics, rule-based duty ethics, and virtue-based character ethics. The paper begins with a discussion of the importance of the problem followed by its evolution and current status. After describing the method of analysis, the central section evaluates the employment at-will doctrine, and is informed by Lord Acton’s dictum, â€œpower tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.â€\x9D The conclusion explores the implications of the findings. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2007at-will employment, civil service reform, employment doctrines, ethical theory, power,

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Lord Acton and Employment Doctrines: Absolute Power and the Spread of At-Will Employment

Bowman

West

2007

J Bus Ethics

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“…Cooper has argued [31] that replacing the central notion of profession with the MacIntyrean notion of practice [32] in business ethics provides room for a development of an alternative ethics [31, p. 321]: ''The conception of practice is more constructive than that of profession; it is a larger framework within which to develop a normative perspective…Profession, unfortunately, may connote self-protection and selfaggrandizement and produce images of paternalistic expertise.'' By introducing this notion of practice, we can slightly alter the meaning of responsibility: it is no longer a matter of whom to blame or to praise.…”

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Technological Delegation: Responsibility for the Unintended

Waelbers

2008

Sci Eng Ethics

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This article defends three interconnected premises that together demand for a new way of dealing with moral responsibility in developing and using technological artifacts. The first premise is that humans increasingly make use of dissociated technological delegation. Second, because technologies do not simply fulfill our actions, but rather mediate them, the initial aims alter and outcomes are often different from those intended. Third, since the outcomes are often unforeseen and unintended, we can no longer simply apply the traditional (modernist) models for discussing moral responsibility. We need to reinterpret moral responsibility. A schematic layout of a model on Social Role-Responsibility that incorporates these three premises is presented to allow discussion of a new way of interpreting moral responsibility.

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“…Existence of ethical standards for employee's and manager's behavior (Whetstone, 2005) 45. Decreasing the hierarchy (Cooper, 1987;Cameron, 2011) 46. Decreasing the bureaucracy (Cooper, 1987) 47.…”

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“…Decreasing the hierarchy (Cooper, 1987;Cameron, 2011) 46. Decreasing the bureaucracy (Cooper, 1987) 47. Going beyond ethics (Manz et al, 2008;Hannah & Avolio, 2011) 48.…”

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“… Virtues are the characters traits, which make it possible for one to engage efficiently in a practice by looking for excel in achieving its internal goods while keeping the external excellence of its organizational setting in a position of lesser importance (Cooper, 1987).  Virtue can be classified as an attribute of personal character, and it possesses cognitive, affective, volitional, and behavioral characteristics (Peterson, 2003).…”

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Hierarchy, Virtue, and the Practice of Public Administration: A Perspective for Normative Ethics

Cited by 107 publications

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Lord Acton and Employment Doctrines: Absolute Power and the Spread of At-Will Employment

Lord Acton and Employment Doctrines: Absolute Power and the Spread of At-Will Employment

Technological Delegation: Responsibility for the Unintended

Moving towards virtuousness in organization: An analysis of factors affecting virtuous organizations

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