Acct 505 Week 2 Assignment
Ethics in Public Administration: Week 2 Assignment Case Study 1
Isabel Carter
PADM505 October 19, 2014
Kennedy Maranga
Dennis the city Manager is working late and he catches his new Budget Director Susan in a compromising situation with the Assistant City Manager. The employee policy prohibits this type of behavior between their employees. According to the City Code of Ethics this type of behavior is unacceptable and calls for dismissal.
Ethics is not the act of controlling co-workers behavior. Dennis may have a duty to discuss what he saw in the workplace. The fact is he only saw the two employees embrace, he would be better off if he discussed the situation with the two employees and find out the issue. He could off interpreted the embrace as passionate and it could have been an embrace of two friends. He is assuming the two employees are having an inappropriate relationship. Does Susan report to Gary directly? Dennis should discuss the no dating policy with the employees, before he makes any assumptions. “A fraternization policy needs these components. It must prohibit romantic relationships between a manager and a reporting staff member. It must define the behavior that is acceptable and what is not acceptable. The policy must supply the potential consequences of breaking the policy. It must provide courses of action that leave an …show more content…
Does this relationship reinforce or detract from the organizational values. The efficiency, effectiveness, excellence and teamwork seem to be working in this situation since Susan found the errors which will allow the Municipality to save millions. “Do ethical climates of public organizations reinforce or detract from organizational values? Such as efficiency, effectiveness excellence or teamwork, According to Menzel he hypothesized that as the ethical climate of an organization became stronger, the five aforementioned performance values will be strongly
Isabel Carter
PADM505 October 19, 2014
Kennedy Maranga
Dennis the city Manager is working late and he catches his new Budget Director Susan in a compromising situation with the Assistant City Manager. The employee policy prohibits this type of behavior between their employees. According to the City Code of Ethics this type of behavior is unacceptable and calls for dismissal.
Ethics is not the act of controlling co-workers behavior. Dennis may have a duty to discuss what he saw in the workplace. The fact is he only saw the two employees embrace, he would be better off if he discussed the situation with the two employees and find out the issue. He could off interpreted the embrace as passionate and it could have been an embrace of two friends. He is assuming the two employees are having an inappropriate relationship. Does Susan report to Gary directly? Dennis should discuss the no dating policy with the employees, before he makes any assumptions. “A fraternization policy needs these components. It must prohibit romantic relationships between a manager and a reporting staff member. It must define the behavior that is acceptable and what is not acceptable. The policy must supply the potential consequences of breaking the policy. It must provide courses of action that leave an …show more content…
Does this relationship reinforce or detract from the organizational values. The efficiency, effectiveness, excellence and teamwork seem to be working in this situation since Susan found the errors which will allow the Municipality to save millions. “Do ethical climates of public organizations reinforce or detract from organizational values? Such as efficiency, effectiveness excellence or teamwork, According to Menzel he hypothesized that as the ethical climate of an organization became stronger, the five aforementioned performance values will be strongly