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Your paper should include the following:
In this Assignment, you examine how an organization's culture influences ethical decision making in an organization.
To prepare for this Assignment, review this week's resources. Select a government or nonprofit organization with which you are familiar and a specific policy or practice within that organization. Avoid choosing an organization or agency where you currently work or have worked in the past. If you do choose such an agency, do not name it or individuals who work in it specifically. Remember to protect confidentiality.
An explanation
1. A brief description of the government or nonprofit organization
2. A brief summary of how an organization's culture can influence the creation of ethical and potentially unethical policies and practices
3. An explanation of how the organization's culture (norms, customs, and traditions) might have influenced decision making and the creation of specific policies and practices
4. A description of a specific policy or practice that presents an ethical dilemma and an explanation of how that specific policy or practice creates the dilemman of how public administrators might use internal and external controls to maintain responsible conduct in the public organization
5. An explanation of how, as a public administrator, you might resolve the ethical dilemma, using the ethical decision-making model presented in the text
6.Support your Assignment with specific references to all resources used in its preparation. Provide a reference list with all resources included in the paper.
Cooper, T. L. (2012). The responsible administrator: An approach to ethics for the administrative role (6th ed.). New York, NY: Jossey-Bass.
Chapter 6, "Maintaining Responsible Conduct in Public Organizations: Two Approaches" (pp. 127-159)
Chapter 7, "Integrating Ethics with Organizational Norms and Structures" (pp. 161-195)
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