A Critique of Ethics Laws

Grumet, Barbara R.

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“…Indeed, one of Cunningham's screening items is &dquo;Are there any rules in the <insert name of relevant professional code of ethics> that you think nizational and/or societal purposes, whether for public employees it constitutes inappropriate competition with the private sector, if it involves inappropriate use of the name of the institutional affiliation of the employee, and if it involves conflicts of interest (Howsam, 1985). In the pages of Public Personnel Management, Grumet (1992) reviewed contemporary ethics laws, arguing that financial disclosure and prohibitions against private-sector employment in areas of public-sector decision-making by the employee do not go far enough to prevent unethical behavior of public sector employees.…”

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Garson¹,

Vasu²

1994

Review of Public Personnel Administration

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n a now classic 1962 article in the Public Administration Review, Robert T. t Golembiewski (1962) argued that when we seek theoretical explanations for the complex phenomena that we call organizations we must address two general types of questions. The first is, what is related to what in organizations?The second, what relations are desirable and how are they to be achieved in organizations? Answers to the first question provide the substance of an empirical theory about behavior in complex organizations. Answers to the second question require a moral or value orientation that provides prescriptions about how various sets of desired ends may be achieved. These prescriptions, Golembiewski argues, are goal-based empirical theories, a type of conceptualization that has not been particularly common in the development of organizational theory. These goal-based or normative theories incorporate and transcend pure empirical theory, while using elements of it. These action theories (e.g., organizational development) as they are sometimes called, tend to view organization as a moral problem. As such, action theories attempt to devise ways and means of achieving specific goals and values (such as the goal of an organization where workers are able to influence the environment within which they work) using empirical knowledge about organizational behavior to achieve these goals.Golembiewski's work provides a theoretical platform for uniting the &dquo;practical&dquo; and the &dquo;ethical&dquo; dimensions of organizations for the purpose of ethical discourse. In a very broad sense, the practical dimensions of organizations include those features of organizational design most likely to enhance organizational efficiency; that is, enhance an organization's output. The ethical dimensions of organization involve the normative standards for guiding &dquo;man to man relations&dquo; in the work place; an example might be, that all jobs reflect the value that all organizational work must allow the individual room for self determination. Golembiewski (1962) argues that a specific set of values guiding at WESTERN OREGON UNIVERSITY on May 30, 2015 rop.sagepub.com Downloaded from

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