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Essay / public administration - 1627
The role of ethics in public administration is based on administration; administrators should be value-free when implementing public policy. I will explain why ethics should be based on administration and why it should not be based on each individual worker in administration. I will discuss Weber's position on values in bureaucratic organizations, what Macintyre suggests, and what Hummel and Goodsell would conclude about values in public administration. Most people don't understand what an administration deals with on a daily basis on an individual basis. They might think that an administration is supposed to make the best ethical choices, but that is not the case. People outside of administration might think that administrators are supposed to use everyday values when implementing policies, but that's not the case either. The role that ethics plays in public administration depends on each individual administration. After all, a government is a business and it must make money to survive in the business world. If all public administration enterprises based ethics on each individual worker, its administration would not survive. Imagine if you were a person working for the state and taking care of a citizen's welfare. You know that the citizen needs more money than the federal government gives them, but you can only give the amount authorized by the government. Well, if an employee gives extra money to a citizen and another employee does the same thing, the state will lose revenue, people who pay taxes will want to know where their money is going and then questions about the social protection system will arise. again. Every administrator who sees a case like the one I just showed wants to do the right thing, but they can't because administrators are not paid to make the right ethical choices. Administrators are paid to do what administration tells them to do, and if that means not doing the right ethical thing, then that employee should leave the company they work for. Governments were created to distribute the amount of money the government sees fit. They were not created to make the ethical choices that a government employee believes are the right thing to do for... middle of paper ...... other government programs. By taking taxpayers' money, the bureaucracy grows. From reading Goodsell, I concluded that he views bureaucratic values as solely those of profit maximization. Government bureaucrats are there to make profits for the government, and if they cannot make the necessary profits, the government will find someone who will. The role of ethics is based on each individual administration, if an administration wants to be more ethical than course, that's fine. Administrators should be free from any value when implementing public policies, because it is the administrations that decide the problems. However, most people do not understand administration and how it works. They walk into the administrator's office expecting what they want to hear and that's not always the case. Citizens just need to understand that the administrators want to give you everything, but they have to comply with what the administration tells them to do..