PPD 240g Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Systematic Chaos, Sheer Terror
8 Sep 2016
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The responsible administrator cont: conflicts of interest, interest : influences, concerns, emotions, that may interfere with decision making. Things that make competent judgment less reliable : the interest usually comes from tension between your job and private interests or needs, safeguarding ethical autonomy, chapter in a nutshell: conflicting loyalties. Or, because administrators work with others and have supervisors, they will have conflict. Or, conflict might come from external controls. Or, conflict comes from internal values: sources of pressure. The move from acting individually to doing what one"s told. Acting as an agent of an organization or group: nazi war criminals. Shift responsibility to : i was only following orders (or nuremberg principle: the court said: agents aren"t instruments, it"s like flying an airplane: Interminable periods of monotony interrupted by moments of sheer terror . It"s in those moments that we are tested. It"s for those moments that we have to be the exemplary public administrator.
