Assignment:
Use the Internet or the Library to research articles on public agencies or non-profit organizations for which your proposed challenges may not be considered actual challenges.
Write a four to five (4 to 5) page paper in which you:
1. Propose two ethical concerns that management may need to address. Create the context in which such concerns may or may not be ethical in nature. Provide a rationale for your response.
2. Analyze the overall manner in which organizational structure impacts organizational ethics. Select one public agency or one non-profit organization in which your challenges may not be considered actual challenges. Provide a rationale for your response.
3. Use the Inventory of Public Management Skills Management, to construct a self-evaluation. Assess your level of development in each of the skills. Propose two to three activities that would help you to improve the skills in question.
Use the results of your self-evaluation and a recommendation from Question 3 to formulate a response to the challenges that you have presented that creates a win-win situation for the organization, the employees, and the public. Predict two potential obstacles to success and two plans to overcome such obstacles.
Include at least four academic references (no more than five years old) from material outside the textbook and no more than one (governmental Website. Note: Appropriate academic resources include academic and governmental Websites, scholarly texts, and peer-reviewed articles. Wikipedia, other wikis, and any other Websites ending in anything other than ".gov" do not qualify as academic resources.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
1. Rearrange public administration, both the traditional and the new approaches, from structural, functional, and process perspectives, as well as the key goals of the public and private sector.
2. Predict the changing nature and responsibilities for managing public and nonprofit organizations.
3. Critique ethics in public service and its influence on the study of public administration as it relates to political choice.
4. Compose the concepts of public leadership and management essential to the study of public administration.
5. Use technology and information resources to research issues in public administration.
6. Write clearly and concisely about public administration using proper writing mechanics.