This subject examines the ethical character of public service as the means to a critical discussion of the moral dimensions of institutional design and individual behaviour in public sector work.
No offerings have been identified for this subject in 2018.
HD/FL
One session
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Not available to students who have completed PHL204 Ethics and the Public Sector.
-Conceptualisations of the public sector; public sector institutions. -Institutional Designs -Bureaucracy and bureaucratic rationality. -Institutional independence/subordination to political direction. -Authority structures: originary and delegated responsibility. -Institutionalising ethics: codes and organisational transparency/secrecy. -Individual Behaviour -Role morality vs individual morality. -The demands and limit of loyalty. C-onflicts of interest. -Privacy and confidentiality. -Corruption. -Whistleblowing.
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The information contained in the 2018 CSU Handbook was accurate at the date of publication: August 2018. The University reserves the right to vary the information at any time without notice.