Exam 3: Ethics and Public Administration

A) Moral obligations unrelated to an individual's formal role, status, or power within an organization.
B) Consists of political and regime values; serves as the moral foundation of public ethics.
C) An approach to ethics that asserts an absolute or ultimate standard for morals that can be arrived at through reason.
D) The theory that the welfare of society is enhanced if the poorest individual is materially improved even if this reduces the well-being of everyone else.
E) The philosophy which holds that the results of one's actions are more important than one's intentions.
F) A minimalist approach to ethics which holds that adherence to the law is sufficient for ethical behavior.
G) The capacity to engage in ethical analysis and decision making.
H) Reporting waste, fraud, or abuse within an organization; often entails considerable cost through employment termination, demotion, or social exclusion.
I) An approach to administrative ethics emphasizing moral reasoning and ethical analysis.
J) Harmful acts committed by public officials who are often unaware that they are doing anything wrong.

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A) Governments have found ethics laws to be of exceptional usefulness in ensuring the good behavior of their employees.
B) The media and public opinion are chiefly responsible for putting ethics on the politicians' agenda.
C) At the federal level, ethics legislation emerged from the period of heightened public attention surrounding the National Performance Review.
D) With the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) Congress designed a system that is centralized.
E) All of the above statements about ethics laws are true.

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A) It fails to recognize the importance of promoting ethical behavior at all levels of the organization.
B) It produces a tendency to lower expectations for the moral responsibility of lower level employers.
C) Low-status workers who are mostly concerned with economic survival are unlikely to bring ethical matters to the attention of their supervisors.
D) All of the above.
E) None of the above.

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A) Moral obligations unrelated to an individual's formal role, status, or power within an organization.
B) Consists of political and regime values; serves as the moral foundation of public ethics.
C) An approach to ethics that asserts an absolute or ultimate standard for morals that can be arrived at through reason.
D) The theory that the welfare of society is enhanced if the poorest individual is materially improved even if this reduces the well-being of everyone else.
E) The philosophy which holds that the results of one's actions are more important than one's intentions.
F) A minimalist approach to ethics which holds that adherence to the law is sufficient for ethical behavior.
G) The capacity to engage in ethical analysis and decision making.
H) Reporting waste, fraud, or abuse within an organization; often entails considerable cost through employment termination, demotion, or social exclusion.
I) An approach to administrative ethics emphasizing moral reasoning and ethical analysis.
J) Harmful acts committed by public officials who are often unaware that they are doing anything wrong.

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A) Moral obligations unrelated to an individual's formal role, status, or power within an organization.
B) Consists of political and regime values; serves as the moral foundation of public ethics.
C) An approach to ethics that asserts an absolute or ultimate standard for morals that can be arrived at through reason.
D) The theory that the welfare of society is enhanced if the poorest individual is materially improved even if this reduces the well-being of everyone else.
E) The philosophy which holds that the results of one's actions are more important than one's intentions.
F) A minimalist approach to ethics which holds that adherence to the law is sufficient for ethical behavior.
G) The capacity to engage in ethical analysis and decision making.
H) Reporting waste, fraud, or abuse within an organization; often entails considerable cost through employment termination, demotion, or social exclusion.
I) An approach to administrative ethics emphasizing moral reasoning and ethical analysis.
J) Harmful acts committed by public officials who are often unaware that they are doing anything wrong.

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A) the assignment of organizational responsibility in a hierarchical or legal manner, which is objective in quality.
B) a moral obligation that is unrelated to an individual's formal role, status, or power within an organization.
C) the principal of making administrators subordinate to and accountable to elected officials; it also consists of management values such as a belief in efficiency, hierarchy, etc.
D) political and regime values; it serves as the moral foundation of public ethics.
E) None of the above.

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A) Adams and Balfour believe that evil is inherent in the human condition.
B) Evil occurs when humans knowingly and deliberately inflict pain and suffering on other human beings.
C) Administrative evil is particularly pernicious since it is effectively masked or hidden from plain sight.
D) With administrative evil public administrators may commit heinous acts without being aware that they are, in fact, doing anything wrong.
E) The ultimate source of administrative evil is a lack of emphasis on technical rationality.

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