Moving the Field Forward with Empathy, Engagement, Equity, and Ethics

Meyer, Seth J.; Johnson, Richard Greggory; McCandless, Sean

doi:10.1080/10999922.2022.2089476

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“…Public practitioners must become skilled at navigating and disarming the ubiquitous minefields of public service once boots hit the ground. Development of cultural competence requires work at the individual, collective, and organizational levels embedded in empathy, ethics, engagement, and equity (Meyer et al, 2022). Starke et al (2018) argued it is the ethical responsibility of public administration programs to educate and prepare students to become culturally competent administrators.…”

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Overcoming neutrality as an organizational learning impediment

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Haupt

2023

Public Administration Review

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This article addresses the negative implications of neutrality in bureaucratic systems and public service. Neutrality employs a sameness approach that reinforces impartiality, invisibility, and indifference, resulting in what we term discriminatory blindness. After a brief illustrative review of neutrality in public service, we critique neutrality as an organizational impediment based on its veiled negative implications and disparate outcomes that fail to center the human experience and treat people based on how they are situated to ensure equity in outcomes. We propose a framework to forge ahead with eight actionable types of initiatives and learning constructs to raise the consciousness of public practitioners. We conclude with an action‐oriented and learning‐focused approach.

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Overcoming neutrality as an organizational learning impediment

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Haupt

2023

Public Administration Review

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“…Inclusive leadership must establish systems that ensure accountability, transparency, flexibility, and innovation to navigate the complexity of bureaucracy in terms of action while driving change in values, norms, and culture to build trust in the workplace (Carrizales et al, 2016). Strong leadership sets clear and intentional goals for increasing representation within an organization and influences how every actor works toward fostering and promoting a representative and diverse workplace (Meyer et al, 2022).…”

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Executive Orders: Mandating Inclusion in the Federal Workplace: Insights from Federal Executive Departments’ Strategic Plans

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2023

Public Personnel Management

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Inclusion remains a very real and legitimate concern in contemporary workplaces. This research examines how executive orders from the Obama, Trump, and Biden administrations influenced Biden era Federal Executive Departments’ strategic plans. This study analyzed the interpretation and understanding of departments’ prioritization and articulation of inclusion across seven core functional areas: (a) leadership; (b) policies, practices, and procedures; (c) human resource management; (d) culture, climate, and norms; (e) emotion, engagement, and perceptions; (f) training and professional development; and (g) accountability and sustainability. The findings reveal that inclusion cannot be mandated or rubberstamped. Inclusion is a subjective endeavor that can result in multiple realities as different employees can experience/observe the same event differently, sometimes infinitely so. The seven core functional areas offer a pathway to embedding inclusive practices and initiatives in the workplace. They create a common approach the federal government can undertake, prioritizing broader knowledge and fundamental awareness of the intertwined nature of experiences, perceptions, emotions, and reasons to foster a sense of belonging.

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“…Lessons in Social Equity successfully answers the call of faculty to address the gap in the literature pertaining to the actual 'how to' teach about and foster social equity in the classroom-how to bridge the theory and practice gap. Accordingly, this volume effectively responds to the call to address the social equity grand challenges for public administration in education, training, and research (Gerton & Mitchell, 2019), and toward moving the field forward with empathy, engagement, equity, and ethics (Meyer et al, 2022).…”

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Lessons in Social Equity: A Case Study Book, Edited by Richard Gregory Johnson III and Seth J. Meyer

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2023

J. Public Nonprof Aff.

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Moving the Field Forward with Empathy, Engagement, Equity, and Ethics

Cited by 8 publications

References 34 publications

Overcoming neutrality as an organizational learning impediment

Overcoming neutrality as an organizational learning impediment

Executive Orders: Mandating Inclusion in the Federal Workplace: Insights from Federal Executive Departments’ Strategic Plans

Lessons in Social Equity: A Case Study Book, Edited by Richard Gregory Johnson III and Seth J. Meyer

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