Essay - Essay One There is a Conservative Orientation in Public Administration...

Essay One

There is a conservative orientation in Public Adm*****istration, a concern with order, stability and continuity. I'm not sure that's all bad."

The above statement addresses one of the central ********** - ***** in many ways ***** central paradox - of public administration, both in the practice and ***** the study of this field. A society that is overly resistant to change stagnates. A species that does not adapt ***** changing environmental and competitive conditions will decline and even become extinct; ***** is true of societies as well. There must be change, or there will be decline and death.

But just ***** lack of change can be terribly damaging if not lethal to a society, too much change can also be dangerous. Societies that prosper are those that ********** f***** change within an established structure - *****d both the ***** and the ***** are important. (This ***** assume, of course, that the structure is fundamentally sound to begin with.)

The question then becomes from what sector ***** societies should the impetus for change stem from ***** ***** what sector should the tendency to protect and continue ***** *****s of a society. ***** are, in fact, a number ***** different groups in each of these camps - both artists and cancer researchers, for example, help a society ***** ch*****nge and evolve.

Amongst the groups ***** help ma*****tain the necessary structure ***** a society ***** ***** th*****t maintain the institutions of daily governance. Public administrators ensure that procedures ***** may seem trivial or even oppressive to members of ***** public are followed - thus allowing for a strong, very slowly evolving structure *****in which other changes may occur more quickly.

Essay Two

Codes of ethics are ***** terribly effective in the controlling of behavior of public employees."

This statement *****s to me ***** quite misguided, for I believe that codes of ***** are in general quite effective in helping to establish and maintain norms for behavior for employees in a wide variety ***** settings. Furthermore, ***** believe ***** such codes of ethics ***** even more effective in the public arena than in the private arena.

Public employees are usually paid less well than those with comparable skills and responsibilities who work in the private *****. They are motivated to stay in the public sector not for the most obvious reasons (***** as financial gain) but because ***** a sense of obligation to help ***** larger good. People who feel an obligation to ***** the society at large even when this entails personal sacrifice ***** by definition ethical people.

***** ***** ***** rise to the ethical t***** set by their bosses. Given that in the public realm those supervisors are also motivated by a desire to contribute ***** the public good, they should (***** general ***** of course there may always be exceptions) prove to ***** capable of *****ing a framework ***** ethical behavior that, when codified, is followed by most ***** of their workforce. To suggest that most people ***** *****