Assignment title: Information
Assignment 3: Leadership and Ethics
In this assignment, you will build upon the two (2) challenges that you had
identified in Assignment 2, Question 4.
Use the Internet to research articles on public agencies or non-profit
organizations for which your proposed challenges may not be considered actual
challenges.
Write a four (4) page paper in which you:
1. Propose two (2) ethical concerns that management may need to address.
Create the context in which such concerns may or may not be ethical in
nature. Provide a rationale for your response.
2. Analyze the overall manner in which organizational structure impacts
organizational ethics. Select one (1) public agency or one (1) non-profit
organization in which your challenges may not be considered actual
challenges. Provide a rationale for your response.
3. Use the Inventory of Public Management Skills Management, located on
pages 11 to 12 of the textbook, to construct a self-evaluation. Assess your
level of development in each of the skills. Propose two (2) to three (3)
activities that would help you to improve the skills in question.
4. Use the results of your self-evaluation and recommendations from
Question 3 to formulate a response to the challenges that you have
presented that creates a win-win situation for the organization, the
employees, and the public. Predict two (2) potential obstacles to success
and two (2) plans to overcome such obstacles.
5. Include at least four (4) academic references (no more than five [5] years
old) from material outside the textbook and no more than one (1)
governmental Website. Note: Appropriate academic resources include
academic and governmental Websites, scholarly texts, and peer-reviewed
articles. Wikipedia, other wikis, and any other Websites ending in
anything other than ".gov" do not qualify as academic resources.
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-
inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or
school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional
instructions.
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The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
• Rearrange public administration, both the traditional and the new approaches,
from structural, functional, and process perspectives, as well as the key
goals of the public and private sector.
• Predict the changing nature and responsibilities for managing public and
nonprofit organizations.
• Critique ethics in public service and its influence on the study of public
administration as it relates to political choice.
• Compose the concepts of public leadership and management essential to the
study of public administration.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in public
administration.
Below is Assignment 2 which list the (2) challenges that has to be identified in
Assignment 2, Question 4.