Toward a Theoretical Framework for Ethical Decision Making of Street-Level Bureaucracy

Loyens, Kim; Maesschalck, Jeroen

doi:10.1177/0095399710362524

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“…Decision-making based on ethical principles includes the application of ethical guiding guidelines, considering the interaction of a set of ethical norms in the solution of the dilemma (LOYENS and MAESSCHALCK, 2010). The decision is considered ethical if it considers positive or negative consequences to other individuals, societies or organizations.…”

Section: The Code Of Ethics and Ethical Decision-makingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ética profissional e estudantes de contabilidade: análise das variáveis intervenientes

2017

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Resumo Este estudo objetiva avaliar e compreender a percepção de estudantes de contabilidade sobre ética profissional, considerando as variáveis intervenientes vinculadas aos fatores individuais. O método utilizado classifica-se como quantitativo, exploratório e survey, com aplicação de questionário fechado por meio de critério transversal. A unidade amostral representa 455 estudantes de uma instituição de Ensino Superior (IES) do Sul do Brasil. Os dados foram analisados com auxílio dos testes não paramétricos Spearman, Kruskal-Wallis e post-hoc Dunn-Bonferroni. Os resultados apontam que os fatores individuais, que diferem em relação à existência de atitudes mais éticas, significativas, são dos estudantes do sexo feminino, com idade até 25 anos, não religiosos, que atuam na área financeira/contábil, com maturidade acadêmica e educação ética. Além disso, a disciplina Ética e Legislação Profissional no curso de contabilidade teve impacto essencial na conduta ética dos futuros profissionais. Portanto, os fatores individuais, analisados neste estudo, e a educação ética influenciam significativamente nas atitudes éticas dos estudantes de contabilidade. Entretanto, essa afirmação trata apenas da unidade de análise deste estudo, pois a comparação de resultados da literatura indica resultados múltiplos em outras regiões.

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Section: The Code Of Ethics and Ethical Decision-makingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ética profissional e estudantes de contabilidade: análise das variáveis intervenientes

2017

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“…Policy actors routinely dealt with diverse barriers emanating from conflicting stakeholder values, conflicting perceptions of stakeholder roles, lack of trusted relationships, lack of stakeholder support for MPA policy outcomes, fragmented and disjointed decision making across scales, uncertain and contested science, resistance to change within bureaucracies, dealing with multiple accountabilities (self, stakeholders, officials), and dealing with self-interested attempts to exhort influence and control. Addressing these barriers depends on the individual will of policy actors to take action (see Lipsky 1980;McLaughlin 1987;Loyens and Maesschalck 2010). Policy actors in the GBR took action to overcome governance barriers in three ways: 1) by using discretion, 2) through participation and collaboration strategies; and 3) by improvising.…”

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“…They are at the frontline of policy and deal with the gap between policy "in theory" (i.e., legislative goals) and "in practice" (policy outcomes) (Loyens and Maesschalck 2010). Policy actors have considerable discretion to constitute and apply policy in different management settings (Lipsky 1980).…”

Section: Policy Actors and Discretion-street Level Bureaucracymentioning

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“…Policy actors have considerable discretion to constitute and apply policy in different management settings (Lipsky 1980). Policy success (i.e., goal attainment) depends on the capacity of policy actors to apply general and abstract ideas to specific situations and the individual will of policy actors to take action (Lipsky 1980;Loyens and Maesschalck 2010;McLaughlin 1987). Organizations often have ambiguous, contradictory, and frequently changing goals (Weatherly and Lipsky 1977); lack standards to interpret policy in practical contexts (Lipsky 1980); and find it difficult to supervise and monitor how policy actors perform their role (Brehm and Gates 1997).…”

Section: Policy Actors and Discretion-street Level Bureaucracymentioning

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Understanding How Policy Actors Improvise and Collaborate in the Great Barrier Reef

Vella

Baresi

2017

Coastal Management

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“…Officers develop distinctive 'styles' of performing their duties that are shaped by their attitudes and values (Jackson and Wade 2005). Officers might cope differently with similar occupational strains and may thus develop different styles (Loyens and Maesschalck 2010). As Lipsky (2010) argues, street-level bureaucrats, like everyone else, have personal standards.…”

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The hole in the doughnut: a study of police discretion in a nightlife setting

Buvik¹

2014

Policing and Society

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online with the title: The hole in the doughnut: a study of police discretion in a nightlife setting http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10. 1080/10439463.2014 The hole in the doughnut: a study of police discretion in a nightlife setting Kristin Buvik THE HOLE IN THE DOUGHNUT: A STUDY OF POLICE DISCRETION IN A NIGHTLIFE SETTING AbstractPolicing is permeated by situations in which discretion is most important. A substantial part of police work in the nightlife setting involves management of drunk and disorderly patrons, and police officers operate with considerable discretion. The aim of this paper is to explore patterns of decision-making and to identify factors that influence an officer's use of discretion in nightlife settings. The data were collected during fieldwork with patrolling police on weekend nights in Oslo and from interviews with police officers.This study provides insight into the everyday work of police officers in Oslo. The officers mostly manage a number of minor incidents, such as disorderly behaviour and alcohol-related trivialities. Police officers generally ignore many minor incidents and seek to resolve cases in the easiest way possible, which implies under-enforcement of the law.Discretionary assessments depend on situational variables, system variables, and offender variables. This paper reveals the importance of these variables and argues that we need to include officer variables as well to get a fuller picture of street-level police officers' decisionmaking. Lipsky's theory of street-level bureaucrats describes how discretionary assessments are based on human judgement, personal decisions and normative choices. Similarly, police officer characteristics involving individual norms and moral beliefs are an important part of discretionary decision-making.

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Toward a Theoretical Framework for Ethical Decision Making of Street-Level Bureaucracy

Cited by 93 publications

References 106 publications

Ética profissional e estudantes de contabilidade: análise das variáveis intervenientes

Ética profissional e estudantes de contabilidade: análise das variáveis intervenientes

Understanding How Policy Actors Improvise and Collaborate in the Great Barrier Reef

The hole in the doughnut: a study of police discretion in a nightlife setting

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