Overview
Sometimes your core beliefs and intuitive reactions can impair your ability to “do the right thing” in public service. Work to create your own useable ethical framework, employing new tools for auditing and managing your behavior. By developing your moral reasoning skills, you will become better able to handle everyday dilemmas in a way that enhances organizational integrity. Leave Brookings with a new confidence in your ability to make responsible, defensible decisions that advance the public good.
This course is required for the Certificate in Public Leadership
Program Benefits
- Ability to appreciate ambiguities and weigh the moral value of different options
- Enhanced ethical awareness to drive your public service practice
- Understanding of your personal responsibilities at work
Competencies
- Integrity and honesty
- Problem-solving
Praise for this Program
"Thought provoking, intellectually challenging."
-- Debbie Gallaway, NASA Headquarters, 2006
"Not your everyday ethics course. Very thought provoking. Ethics in a new and useable light."
--Julie Robertson, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 2006