Empowerment and public administration: revolutionary advance or passing fancy?

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There is much debate about the usefulness of the concept and practice of empowerment in public sector organizations. It is important, therefore, to examine the origins and meaning of empowerment, the extent to which it has been introduced in Canadian public organizations, and the obstacles to its successful implementation. It is important also to analyse the political and managerial implications of empowering employees and organizations and to assess the compatibility of empowerment with the constitutional convention of ministerial responsibility. Effective implementation of empowerment is a difficult, risky endeavor, but the payoff is likely to be worth the price. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Methods, Analysis, Management, Canada, Corporations, Participatory management, Public administration, Corporations, Canadian

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Ethics education: how to do it

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The University of Toronto's MBA program has a course on ethical analysis that is designed to allow students to develop an ethical framework for analyzing organizational behavior. The ethical framework has three major elements of analysis: analytical techniques, problems and dilemmas, and values. With the dilemmas and problems analytical framework, students learn to identify conflicts of interest, problems of confidentiality and rights, and abuses of power. Students learn that values underlie ethics and that ethics are the product of values. Six-minute videos are used to illustrate different types of dilemmas, and case studies are used in later sessions.

Curricula, Education, Ethical aspects, Study and teaching, Ethics, University of Toronto

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