Tag: Professions & the public sector
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Money growing on trees is a salty tale
Imagine being confronted with irrefutable evidence of a factory discharging its effluence into the river from which your drinking water is drawn....
Ethics and aesthetics in public administration
Good evening. May I begin by thanking the Institute of Public Administration Australia for extending to me the honour of delivering the Don Dunstan...
The spirit of public service
You can also read the full version of the speech this article is based upon, Ethics and aesthetics in public administration. To many people, public...
Ethical decision-making in the public sector
Contents: What is ethics all about? A final point about ethics Public service and the public interest Why submit to government? Talk of obligations...
Professions or price
Recent reports by the Trade Practices Commission and the Independent Committee of Inquiry Into Competition, headed by Professor Fred Hilmer, have...
Self-interest detracts from the lustre of the professions
A quiet revolution is taking place in the way in which society thinks about the place of the professions. Just as more and more groups lay claim to...
Should engineers reassess their aims and ideals?
There is a risk that by the year 2000 the term 'professional' could be reduced to the status of mere window dressing, pinned on and stripped off as a...
My ethics, my practice
In a 1990 copy of the journal Stanford a doctor supplied a dilemma for readers subtitled: You can help them have a baby, but would they be fit...
My ethics, my practice
In a 1990 copy of the journal Stanford a doctor supplied a dilemma for readers subtitled: You can help them have a baby, but would they be fit...
Competition and self-regulation of the professions
To what extent should competition policy be applied to the conduct of the professions? On the face of it, this is a simple question to answer. Yet,...
The role of ethics in commercial and professional relationships
Contents: Introduction The 'ethical landscape Can one tame the ethical landscape? Summarising ethics Are ethics an optional extra? Relationships...
Professions in society
I fear that the professions are on the road to oblivion in Australia. Few seem to have noticed. Less seem to care. I'm not suggesting that we will...
Community service obligations and the public sector
Contents: Introduction Why submit to government? Talk of obligations implies talk of rights (and vice versa) Community service obligations What...
Regulation of the professions and matters of conscience
What is a profession? The concept of a profession relates to the contract that professionals make with society. They agree to conscientiously serve...
She died with a cappuccino on her lips
Ethics is 'bubbling' in the health and education domains. Two years ago it was rare for professionals from either of these areas to contact the...
In search of certainty
Contents: Background The relevance for business & the professions The way ahead: are there any lessons for management? Background One of the...
The circuit-breaker
Introduction An increasing number of people are coming to accept that the debate about business and professional ethics is of importance. Yet how...
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