1. ETHICAL ISSUES AND DECISION MAKING
PUBLIC SERVICE
“If you don’t want to work for a living – this is as good a job as any”
John F. Kennedy 1946 – New Congressman
With Funding from: Department of Justice, COPS Office

2. “90% of success is just showing up”
CLASS RESOURCES
MEET YOUR
TEAMMATES
“90% of success is just showing up”
Woody Allen

3. “Ethics” – What is it & WHY?
Ethics – Study of what is
“Right & Wrong – Good or Bad”
Morality – Rules & Social Standards
Ethical Issues – Debatable questions of Moral Right & Wrong
“Congress would exempt itself from the Laws of Gravity if it could”
Congressman Henry Hyde, 1988

4. Relevant to PUBLIC SERVICE
“BRAIN STORM”
THREE MINUTE EXERCISE:
What are some “ETHICAL ISSUES”
Relevant to PUBLIC SERVICE
“Just put in some of that VISION thing”
George Bush to speech writer

5. ETHICAL PRINCIPLES “SHOULD” Treat others as they want to be treated
Be honest
Respect rights of others
Greatest Good – Greatest Number
“Character is much easier kept than recovered”
Thomas Payne

6. PROFESSIONAL ETHICS
APPLICATION of Universal Ethical Principles to situations that arise in Business of Professional Life
“So far – about morality. I know only that what is moral is what you fell good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after”
Ernest Hemingway

7. “VIRTUES” IN ETHICS THREE MINUTE EXERCISE Virtues and a
“GOOD PUBLIC SERVANT”

8. Character & Integrity
Character = Total of all ethical Strengths and Weaknesses – (Continuum)
Integrity = Living by Commendable Ethical Principles
“The world has achieved brilliance without conscience – Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants” Omar Bradley

9. 4 Components of Rest’s Consistent Ethical Behavior
Moral Sensitivity
Moral Judgment
Moral Motivation
Moral Character
“Only a life lived for others is a life worth living” Einstein

10. THREE (3) Minute “Brainstorming”
“STANDARD” of Behavior for
PUBLIC SERVANTS
“Everything secret denigrates: nothing is safe that does not bear discussion and publicity” Lord Action

11. UNIT 2: MORAL DEVELOPMENT
PERSONAL ETHICS
POP QUIZ
“Inability to tell good from evil is the greatest worry of man’s life” Cicero

12. LEVELS OF MORAL REASONING
Level One : Basic, Immature, Self serving, No punishment
Level Two: Conforming, Social Approval, “Right”
Level Three: Rational, “Universal”
“The ethical person should do more than he is required to do and less than he is allowed to do” Michael Josephson

13. ILLUSTRATION OF MORAL DEVELOPMENT
Kohlberg Video of
Milgram’s 1950’s Experiments
“All virtue is summed up in dealing justly” Aristotle

14. “GOOD” PUBLIC SERVANT Dilemmas
APPLICATION SCENERIO
“GOOD” PUBLIC SERVANT Dilemmas

15. UNIT 3 – Conflicts of Interest to Public Servants
“Trust like the soul – never returns once it is lost” Syrus

16. HUMAN “SCAVENGER HUNT”
Back to “Teammate” Resources
“Ethics requires us to abandon the notion that an act is ethical – simply because it is legal”
Michael Josephson

17. CONFLICTS of INTEREST Competing Priorities –
Personal & Professional Commitments
“Too many people are ready to carry the stool when the piano needs to be moved”
Unknown

18. Errors in Judgment = Trust & Reliability Problems
Three Levels of Conflicts of Interest:
Actual
Potential
Apparent
“There is a big difference between what we have a right to do – and what is right to do”
Justice Potter Stuart

19. COPING WITH CONFLICTS OF INTEREST
WE MIGHT:
Do Nothing – Ignore it
Avoid
Escape
Disclose
Manage
“The reward of a thing well done – is to have done it”
Emerson

20. APPLICATION SCENARIO “Max & Minnie” Type of Conflict of Interest?
Possible Actions – Coping Strategies
“It is easier to fight for principles – than to live up to them”
Alfred Adler

21. UNIT 4 FLORIDA CODE OF ETHICS for: Public Officers & Employees
Set of Rules and Principles intended to provide Guidelines and Behavioral Standards to those under its authority.

22. “ We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give”
3 Types of Ethical Codes
Corporate Codes
Professional Codes
Government / Public Service Codes
“ We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give”
Winston Churchill

23. LEVELS of Ethical PRINCIPLES, STANDARDS & RULES
THEORETICAL LEVEL
PRACTICAL LEVEL
CURRENTLY ATTAINABLE LEVEL
BASIC LEVEL
“Life consists, not in holding good cards, but in playing well those you hold” Josh Billings

24. OVERVIEW of Florida Code Ethics
Prohibited Actions
Prohibited Employment & Relationships
Restrictions Regarding Relatives
Revolving Door Restrictions
Voting Conflicts of Interest
Disclosure Forms
Additional Content

25. APPLICATION EXERCISES Florida Code of Ethics
“If we were In Charge”
“Lenny’s Dilemma”
“We cannot live happily as human beings in the belief that our own actions don’t matter”
Alvin Toffler

26. WRAP UP & EVALUATION THANK YOU -
“Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place – but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment”
Benjamin Franklin