Examine your core beliefs and intuitive reactions and discover how they can sometimes impair your ability to “do the right thing” in public service. Work to create your own usable 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. Develop 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
OPM Competencies
- Integrity/honesty
- Problem-solving
About the Instructor
Stuart Yoak has been a lecturer in Professional Ethics at Washington University since 1986. As the executive director for the Center for the Study of Human Values at Washington University, Professor Yoak is helping facilitate interdisciplinary research and teaching in ethics and values among faculty and students from all schools of Washington University and with leaders throughout the community. He completed his undergraduate degree at Michigan State University and his Ph.D. at Washington University.
Praise for this Program
"Thought-provoking, intellectually challenging."
—Debbie Gallaway, NASA Headquarters
"Not your everyday ethics course. Very thought-provoking. Ethics in a new and useable light."
—Julie Robertson, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration