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| Preface | |
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| About the Authors | |
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| Introduction: A Primer on Ethics in Public Administration | |
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| Why Study Ethics? | |
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| Subjectivism | |
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| Cultural Relativism | |
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| Psychological Egoism | |
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| Utilitarian Theory (Teleological Ethics) | |
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| Duty Ethics (Deontological Ethics) | |
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| Virtue Ethics | |
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| The Moral Minimum | |
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| The Case Study Method | |
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| Managing Employees | |
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| Floggings Will Continue | |
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| Not Paying Taxes at the IRS | |
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| Cutting Loose the Dirty Dozen | |
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| Eleven Months to Retirement | |
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| A Competent but Slow Employee | |
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| A Termination by Any Other Name | |
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| Leading Public Organizations | |
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| Gay Rights Signs on City Utility Poles | |
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| Serving at the Pleasure of the City Council | |
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| Office of Emergency Management Fake Press Conference | |
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| Squeezing Out the Garbage Collectors | |
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| The Governor's Transition Team | |
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| Running the Numbers at the State Health Department | |
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| Public Financial Management and Budgeting | |
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| The Long Forgotten Raise in the Property Tax | |
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| Tuition Reimbursement Program | |
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| Submitting an Incomplete Financial Report | |
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| Ineligible for Suggestion System Awards | |
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| Free Boat for Soda Display at State Lodge | |
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| Charging for Copies of Public Documents | |
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| Managing Human Resources | |
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| The Planning Director and the H R Analyst | |
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| Patronage Charges against the Governor | |
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| Selecting the Special Assistant to the City Council | |
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| Maintaining Pay during Reduction in Force | |
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| A Speed Bump on Staff | |
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| The Bureaucrat's Wife | |
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| Public Health and Welfare | |
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| Pennies from Heaven | |
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| Spanking the Foster Child | |
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| Children Abused in State Institution | |
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| Smoking at the State Health Department | |
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| Prenatal Care for Illegal Immigrants | |
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| Privatizing the County Hospital | |
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| Planning and Economic Development | |
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| Tourism Advertisement | |
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| A Reasonable Offer | |
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| Shootout at the Zoning Commission: MegaStore v. the Pharmacists | |
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| Complimentary Soda Drinks for Bus Drivers | |
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| The Ethanol Loan Subsidy | |
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| Free Building for Titan Trout Shop | |
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| Education Administration and Policy | |
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| Changing the Grade | |
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| The Superintendent's Scandal | |
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| Gift Certificate for Recommendation Letter | |
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| State University Football Coach and the Wayward Team | |
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| Working Extra to Pay Your Own Salary | |
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| Professor Dating Student | |
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| To Protect and to Serve | |
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| Rough Day in Tornado Alley | |
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| Pornography and the Police Chief's Wife | |
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| Nukes Travel Cross County | |
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| Highway Patrol Officer Sells Benefit Tickets | |
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| Cyber Terrorism | |
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| Records Check | |
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| Bureaucracy and Public Morality | |
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| The Corrections Officer Selection Video | |
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| Indecent Exposure and the Board of Cosmetology | |
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| American General Opines on Gays | |
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| Hollywood Discovery | |
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| Advertisement for Topless Bar in University Newspaper | |
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| Diversity Management | |
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| Sensitivity Training and Pandora's Box | |
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| The Fair Employment Practices Act | |
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| Weekend Racist | |
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| Accommodating a Student with a Disability | |
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| Hate Speech in Confidential Course Evaluations | |
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| Equal Pay Experts in a Hot Tub | |
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| Challenges in Nonprofit Management | |
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| Firefighters Get Money for Charity | |
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| Ghost Worker at the Nonprofit | |
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| Sharing the Donor List | |
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| University President Protests Football Official's Decision | |
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| The Lazy Volunteer | |
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| Environmental Protection | |
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| An Ombudsman by Any Other Name | |
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| Northern Spotted Owl | |
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| Funding the Frog Study | |
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| Penciling in Your Own Salary | |
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| Carbon Footprint of a Global Warming Activist | |
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| Appendix Cases Listed by Subject Areas | |