MPA 8300
Leadership Ethics

1. To become aware of, to identify, and to critique various ethical theories.
2. To examine the ethical terrain of public agencies and to develop competence in reflecting upon it.
3. To strengthen the reasoning and analytical skills required to identify and to deal with ethical dilemmas in public agencies.
4. To identify ethical dilemmas with precision and to explicate the values conflicts embedded in them.
5. To consider how ethics can and does (or does not) impact the behavior of people in public agencies.
6. To locate human responsibility, and thus, ethical leadership, within public agencies.
7. To clarify a pathway to resolve impediments to appropriate ethical action in public agencies.
8. To speak with clarity and conviction about one’s ethical motives and convictions.