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How can public leaders exercise ethical leadership, and how can we promote clean government, given the many excuses for 'dirty hands' that injures the character of many leaders? This course provides participant with a purview to debates over public sector ethics, focusing on the roles and responsibilities of public servants and their relationships to politicians and others sharing public power. The faculty uses practical examples and case studies of ethical problems from across the public sector, blending Nigeriaan and international material so that participants can learn from a variety of policy frameworks appropriate to the regulation of public conduct.
Participants will examine core theories of ethics with the aim of relating these to prevailing narratives of public policy and practices of public administration. They will also examine various approaches to codifying and enforcing public sector ethics.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
1. critically understand the main concepts and theories in public sector ethics and governance;
2. critically apply ethical concepts and theories to examples of public sector practice;
3. access relevant source materials on public sector ethics;
4. critically understand the role of ethics in professional public sector practice;
5. apply critical analytical corporate governance capacity to answering questions on public sector ethics.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
Participants will have the opportunity to:
- examine the underlying assumptions behind the ethical responsibilities of public officials andgovernment figures in democratic societies;
- explore key aspects of professional ethics – conflicts of interest, loyalty, duty, subordination;
- give attention to the way in which institutional arrangements and reforms promote or inhibitmoral choices and anticorruption strategies.
- Assess norms and values related to the public service.