Week 11 Learning Resources

This page contains the Learning Resources for this week. Be sure to scroll down the page to see all of this week’s assigned Learning Resources.
Required Resources
Note: To access this week’s required library resources, please click on the link to the Course Readings List, found in the Course Materials section of your Syllabus.
Readings
•    Cooper, T. L. (2012). The responsible administrator: An approach to ethics for the administrative role(6th ed.). New York, NY: Jossey-Bass.
o    Chapter 10, “Conclusion: Responsible Administration” (pp. 255–269)
•    Frederickson, H. G. (1990). Public administration and social equity. Public Administration Review, 50(2), 228–237.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
•    Mittelman, J. H. (2002). Making globalization work for the have nots. International Journal on World Peace, 19(2), 3–25.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
•    Walzer, M. (2011). Achieving global and local justice. Dissent, 58(3), 42–48.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
•    Yeager, S. J., Bartley Hildreth, W., Miller, G. J., & Rabin, J. (2007). The relative effects of a supervisory emphasis on ethical behavior versus political responsiveness. Public Integrity, 9(3), 265–283.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
Optional Resources
•    Lamont, J., & Favor, C. (2013).Distributive justice. In E. N. Zalta (Ed.), The Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy (Spring 2013 ed.). Retrieved fromhttp://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2013/entries/justice-distributive/
•    Slote, M. (2010). Justice as a virtue. In E. N. Zalta (Ed.), The Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy(Fall 2010 ed.). Retrieved from http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2010/entries/justice-virtue/

Discussion: Social Justice and Social Change
In many of the Assignments in the course, you employed ethical decision making in order to recommend solutions to ethical issues within government and nonprofit organizations. As a current or future public administrator in a government or nonprofit organization, you must  act responsibly and ethically to  ensure positive social change. One way to promote the ethical conduct of your organization is to utilize ethical decision making effectively. However, decision making often has consequences for different groups.. For example, a decision that positively affects a domestic population might negatively impact a foreign population.

In this Discussion, you consider the impact of ethical decision making on positive social change.

Post by Day 3 an explanation of the impact of ethical decision making on positive social change. Summarize specific examples of the ethical decisions you proposed throughout the course and explain how they might promote positive social change. Finally, explain any negative impacts in terms of social change that this decision making might have.

Support your postings and responses with specific references to the resources.

Read a selection of your colleagues’ postings.

Respond by Day 5 to at least two of your colleagues’ postings in one or more of the following ways:
•    Offer and support an opinion from having read your colleagues’ postings about the impact of ethical decision making on positive social change.
•    Expand on your colleagues’ postings by explaining how the ethical decisions your colleagues described might have negative impacts in addition to positive impacts.
Return to this Discussion in a few days to read the responses to your initial posting. Note what you have learned and/or any insights you have gained as a result of the comments that your colleagues have shared.