INNER-INNER ROLE CONFLICT

02 Jul INNER-INNER ROLE CONFLICT

Imagine that you are an administrator in your own country. You are the Director of an agency or ministry. You report to the head of the agency or ministry. You have 6 subordinates. Your Director reports to an elected or appointed official who is a politician. You are having both inner-inner and inner-outer role conflicts, as well as authority conflicts. In the agency there are several instances of conflict of interest.
1. What are the duties of your role? What activities do you do in your role?

2. What are three other roles that you play in addition to being a public servant?

3. In this particular agency/ministry, what is your objective responsibility to the politician(s) and the law?

4. In this particular agency/ministry, what is your objective responsibility to your superiors?

5. In this particular agency/ministry, what is your objective responsibility to your subordinates?

6. In this particular agency/ministry, what is your objective responsibility to the citizens?

7. To what beliefs, values and codes do you personally have subjective responsibility?

8. What is the inner-outer role conflict?
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9. What is the inner-inner role conflict?
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10. What two kinds of conflict of interest did you choose?

11. In this agency/ministry, what did the first conflict of interest look like?

12. In this agency/ministry, what did the second conflict of interest look like?

13. What two superiors are creating a conflict of authority for you? What are the details of the conflict?

14. What intrinsic values are at stake in the situation you find yourself in?

15. What extrinsic values are at stake?

16. What systemic values are at stake?

17. What external controls are involved in this particular situation?
18. What internal controls are involved in this particular situation?

19. As a member of the APA, or a professional society in your country which has the same code, what statements in that professional code guide you in this particular situation?

20. Given these facts, what is the ethical problem you wish to solve?

What are two solutions you would pick?
21. SOLUTION A:

22. SOLUTION B:

23. What moral codes are behind SOLUTION A?
24. What principles are behind SOLUTION A?

25. How would you defend SOLUTION A to others?

26. What feelings would you experience if you chose SOLUTION A to implement?

27. What moral codes are behind SOLUTION B?

28. What principles are behind SOLUTION B?

29. How would you defend SOLUTION B to others?

30. What feelings would you experience if you chose SOLUTION B to implement?

31. Which solution would you pick? Why would you choose that one?

How could organizational structure make it difficult for this solution to work? What would you do to fix that?
32. HOW STRUCTURE COULD INTERFERE:

33. WHAT I COULD DO ABOUT IT:

How could organizational culture make it difficult for this solution to work? What would you do to fix that?
34. HOW CULTURE COULD INTERFERE:

35. WHAT I COULD DO ABOUT IT:
36. What is good about external controls?

37. What is NOT good about external controls?

38. What is good about internal controls?

39. What is NOT good about internal controls?

40. What does “ethical autonomy” mean?

41. How are Fitzgerald, Coplin, and Ellsberg similar?

42. How do Friedrich and Finer differ?

43. What is the ethical issue in the case called The Favorite Contractor?

44. What conflicts exist in The Favorite Contractor case study in the text?

What would you say are your 3 most valuable things you learned from this course?
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What are two things you learned from your session going over your results from the Hartman Profile with Dr. Connor?
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