Please review all questions and respond with the correct answer by selecting your response from the question options.

Question 1

In her video, "What is moral imagination?" Patricia Werhane includes all of the following except ____ in her definition of moral imagination.

Question 1 options:

	It's steppping out of the box.
	it is much more creative thinking.
	It is the ability to look at the world other than you would normally look at the world.
	It is a version of applied paradoxcial thinking.

Question 2

"Systems to monitor and enforce ethical standards" includes all of the following except?

Question 2 options:

	Independent audits
	Educating employees
	Surveys
	Investigations

Question 3

Paradoxical thinking involves a paradigm shift in how we perceive ways of thinking and behaving. It calls for more:

Question 3 options:

	thought as to what causes certain things to happen.
	open and flexible ways of creating a worldview.
	effort and complicated manners of solving life's problems.
	reasoning to determine the effect of one's decisions.

Question 4

Competence has been at the center of a significant number of research and initiatives in public organizations over the past few years. A competence management system consists of principles regarding all of the following.

Question 4 options:

	its design, regulatory effects, and implementation
	its design, implementation, and development in a sustainable manner
	its design, regulatory effects, and effect on organizational culture
	its regulatory effects, sustainability, and effect on organizational culture

Question 5

The ethics of public entrepreneurship became a major issue of public discourse through the widely publicized bankruptcy of Orange County, California. The result of this is a reinvention movement. The reinvention movement goes beyond those for whom the answer to poor performance in government is simply privatization. It sustains it is possible to improve the performance of the public sector through:

Question 5 options:

	Paradoxical thinking, creativity, better management, and reforms in organizations and incentives.
	Staying out of trouble, doing just enough and never, never, ever making a mistake.
	Limiting public officials to looking for opportunities to earn rather than spend money.
	Recognizing business and government have very different goals and therefore the techniques of private sector entrepreneurship are seldom appropriate and often result in unethical behavior for public officials.

Question 6

In determining who is affected by the decisions we make, whether ethical or unethical, the term stakeholder is used. Stakeholders include all of the following except:

Question 6 options:

	External and direct components
	Internal components
	Only the general public
	External and internal

Question 7

These elements are considered the backbone of contempory insitutional ethics programs and by 2005 half or more of states utilized them. They are?

Question 7 options:

	Some form of whistle-blower protection legislation, financial disclusure requirments, and appearance of impropriety standards.
	Appearance of impropriety standards, financial disclusure requirments, conflict of interest rules in place, ethics commissions, bribery statutes, and ethics commissions.
	Ethics commissions, bribery statutes, and of interest rules in place.
	Financial disclusure requirments, conflict of interest rules in place, ethics commissions, bribery statutes, Some form of whistle-blower protection legislation, and appearance of impropriety standards.

Question 8

Although municipal and county ethics commissions or boards vary widely in terms of structure and authorities, there are common themes. Which of the following best describes their common themes?

Question 8 options:

	They have a code and are responsible for interpreting rules and givng findings.
	They all have a similar code.
	Their resonsibilities do not involve ethical codes.
	They have a code and are responsible maintaining and enforcing the code. They ensure that proper ethical training is conducted for employees.

Question 9

Ethical codes have different objectives. Some are designed to clarify the minimum standards expected of public servants. According to the text book crictics of these codes argue all of the following except:

Question 9 options:

	The codes need to be focused on internal motivations for behavior and not external appearances.
	That at best they are deterrents of the most terrible forms of bad behavior.
	They encourage bad behavior that is not clearly outlawed in the code.
	The purpose of the code should not be describing the minimums; rather it should focus public employees on the highest form of public behavior.

Question 10

What should be a major understanding of the discussion on ethics?

Question 10 options:

	To learn how to think unsystematically about morals, ethics and how to treat other people.
	Public servants have a responsibility to uphold the ethics of their profession and organization. They need to remember that ethical responsibility rests with them.
	That a person's morals and values, though they may be different from our own, are not necessarily wrong or immoral but must be modified to conform to all public policies.
	To meet ethical challenges of public service and leadership with an understanding of the vital need to meet these challenges while ignoring the wide diversity of ethical opinions, perspectives, and strategies.

Question 11

What does the acronym NIMBY stand for?

Question 11 options:

	Not in a million, billion years
	Not in my barn yard
	Not in my back yard
	Never in my back yard

Question 12

Which of the following is the best defintion forEudaemonism?

Question 12 options:

	Do what you want to do.
	If it feels good do it.
	The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.
	Good actions produce happiness.

Question 13

An act done for the interest of another without thought of reward describes:

Question 13 options:

	Selfishness
	Altruism
	Anchoring
	Anti-corruption

Question 14

The public policy analysis that places a dollar amount on the value of a human life is known as:

Question 14 options:

	Standard operating procedure
	Life value analysis
	Statistics analytics
	Cost-benefit analysis

Question 15

A person with an interest or concern in something is a(n):

Question 15 options:

	Participant
	Stakeholder
	Shareholder
	Corporate sponsor

Question 16

In regards to public administration, what are codes?

Question 16 options:

	The nomenclature used in an organization.
	Designations given to administrative actiins.
	Rules designed to direct behavior.
	The numbering system for administrative forms.

Question 17

Which of the following is a problem with codes in relation to ethical behavior?

Question 17 options:

	Codes do not have penalties.
	Codes have high standards that may be unachievable.
	Codes are not enforceable.
	Codes do not set a baseline for behavior.

Question 18

Who or what is usually given the task of enforcing codes?

Question 18 options:

	State and local police.
	Federal law enforcement.
	Ethics commissions.
	Citizen councils.

Question 19

Disclosing to the public inside information of wrongdoing is known as:

Question 19 options:

	Whistle-blowing
	Tattle-telling
	Tooting your horn
	Spotlighting

Question 20

What is a conflict of interest?

Question 20 options:

	When your interests are in conflict with your employer's interests.
	When public agency decisions conflict with the public's interest.
	When one public agency conflicts with another.
	When personal self-interest conflicts with the public's interest.