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Democracy and the New Public Service : James L. Perry, The American Review of Public Administration 2007, 37: 3-16.

Questions that apply to article:

1. What are the challenges for democracy that the new public service poses according to this author?
2. What is the New Public Service?
3. What are the four reforms that the author suggests could make a difference in our ability to achieve the four criteria of democracy?

Ethics and Organizational Change : Warren R. Nielsen, Nick Nykodym and Don J. Brown, Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources 1991, 29: 82-93.

Questions that apply to article:

1. What factors were driving organizations to change in 1991 when this article was written?
2. What is the most important ethical issue that should be addressed before any change strategy is implemented in an organization?
3. What are other ethical issues in implementing change in an organization?
4. What are the issues driving organizations to change in today’s environment?  What are the current ethical questions?

Institutionalizing Ethics: A Synthesis of Frameworks and the Implications for HRD : Marianne F. Foote and Wendy E. A. Ruona, Human Resource Develoopment Review 2008, 7: 292-308.

Questions that apply to article:

1. How has compliance based ethics evolved over the past two decades?
2. What is the definition of ethics? How do you institutionalize ethics?
3. What is the HRD’s role in institutionalizing ethics?

Wicked Problems: Implications for Public Policy and Management: Brian W. Head and John Alford, Administration and Society 2015, 47 (6): 711-739.

Questions that apply to article:

1. Describe the characteristics of “wicked problems”.
2. What challenges to these problems present to public administrators?
3. What are successful strategies in addressing wicked problems?

Personal Value Systems and Decision-Making Styles of Public Managers: Patrick E. Connoer and Boris W. Becker, Public Personnel Management 2003, 32 (1).

Questions that apply to article:

1. Compare and contrast values, attitudes, and behavior.
2. What are the stages of the decision process?
3. Are the values of public managers related to their decision-making styles? If so, how?