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Denali Kervella Intro to Public Administration Works Cited Gueras, Dean, and Charles Garofalo. Practical Ethics in Public Administration [Electronic Resource]/ Dean Geuras , Charles Garofalo. n.p.: Vienna, VA: Management Concepts, 2010., 2010. Texas State- Alkek Library’s Catalog. Web 16 Oct. 2015. This source is a book that delves into real-life ethical issues pertaining to ethics in the public sector. It explains the various complexities that one faces when making every day decisions while working in the public sector. He provides several real world examples of ethical delimas that public sector employees faced in America and analyzed their actions. This book would provide anyone working in the public sector with the tools and knowledge to make more informed and “ethical” decisions. Banks, Sarah. “Negotiating Personal Engagement and Professional Accountability: Professional Wisdom and Ethics Work.” European Journal of Social Work 16.5 (2013) 587-604 18p. CINAHL Complete. Web. 16 Oct. 2015 This source is an article that analyzes the connection between personal engagement and professional accountability and its connection with ethics in the public sector, specifically in regards to social welfare. The purpose of this is so that social welfare work can be measured by its beneficial out puts and outcomes. This article argues that Government/employer regulation in regards to professional accountability is the most important factor that contributes to good professional ethics, although an appropriate amount of personal engagement is key as well. Heres, Leonie and Karin Lasthuizen. “What’s the Difference? Ethical Leadership in Public, Hybrid and Private Sector Organizations.” Journal of Change Management. 12.4 (2012): 441-466. Business Source Complete. Web. 15 Oct. 2015 This article analyzes the influence on the publicness of an organization on its ethical leadership, and which kind is the best. Based on the assumption that one ethical leadership style should work for all kinds of organizations, this article does qualitative interviews to analyze the similarities and differences of the ethical leadership of private, public and hybrid organization. In general the research suggested that public and hybrid sector organizations valued altruism and the common good more than the private sector. In addition public sector and hybrid sector managers believed that explicit communication about ethics whereas private sector managers preferred discussion about ethics to be more “implied”. This source is a valuable way of examining public sector ethics not only because of how much impact the managers of an organization can have over the employee’s ethics as a whole, but because it provides a comparison of ethics across the public and private sectors which is helpful for a well-rounded analysis. Salkin, Patricia E. Ethical Standards in the Public Sector: A Guide for Government Lawyers, Clients and Public Officials. Chicago: Section of State and Local Government Law, American Bar Association, 1999. eBook Collection (EBSCOhost). Web. 15 Oct. 2015. This source is a book that provides a thorough overview of the many complexities and suggestions for how lawyers and public sector clients can make an informed decision on the most ethical course of conduct. The book provides a very thorough overview of this subject matter because it contains a collection of sources including research studies, essays and articles. The book does an incredibly detailed job of providing resources from multiple levels of government and ethics commissions, however the authors very clearly stated that this book does not provide legal rules or regulations, just suggestions for a way to have an ethical mindset and decision-making process. This source is extremely useful in evaluating the legal aspect of public sector ethics, because government lawyers must make difficult ethical decisions nearly every day. Shacklock, Arthur, Mark Manning, and Linda Hort. “Ethical Climate Type, Self-Efficacy, And Capacity to Deliver Ethical Outcomes in Public Sector Human Resource Management.” Journal Of New Business Ideas & Trends 9.2 (2011) 34-49. Business Source Complete. Web. 16 Oct. 2015 This article examines and measures public sector in regards to one variable, the ethical climate. They propose that from a theoretical perspective a workers behavior is a function of their psychological field. They theorize that understanding the ethical climate in which one works explains ones decisions making and can differentiate between and explain why one would make ethical or unethical choices. This article presents the findings of a study done examining the ethical climate in the Australian public sector through analyzing surveys in which public sector employees responded to a variety of different scenarios where ethical decision making came into play. The researchers looked for correlations between ethical climate environments and the responses to this survey and found that certain ethical climates were linked to positive ethical decision making and some were linked to worse ethical decision making, supporting the researchers thesis. Although this is certainly very interesting, I do not think that analyzing the ethical climate should be the only way public sector ethics should be evaluated, although it is certainly an interesting theory that could benefit from even more research being done with a larger pool of participants in the study.