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Safeguarding Ethical Autonomy and Applications of the Design Approach Ethics in Public Policy and Administration Luisa Enriquez, Paul Fields, and Jared Smith Individual Ethical Autonomy/ Components of Individual Autonomy ➢ Ethical Awareness - know yourself, love what you stand for ➢ Role Evaluation & Recognize limits within the organization ➢ Understand the consequences of whistleblowing and recognize the ambiguity of effectiveness ➢ Agentic Shift - carrying out orders, no personal responsibility Organizational Remedies/ Individual Responsibilities ➢ How do we encourage employees to exercise ethical autonomy? ○ Create Channels of Dissent ○ Collaborative Decision Committees ○ Forums for discussion ○ Policies and Procedures ○ Training, training, training Our something new: Whistleblower Policy Sample https://www.opm.gov/our-inspector-general/whistleblower-protection-information/ ● Types of Whistle Blowing ● Process for filing a complaints - Channels of Dissent (Hotline, Office, Forms, Committees) ● Protections for 3rd party whistleblowers (contractors) ● Limits on coverage periods ● Process for investigating and responding to complaints The Design Approach to Public Admin. Ethics ➢ Begin with an assumption of uncertainty, acknowledge ambiguities ➢ Addressing fundamental factors involved ○ Avoid defining problem narrowly ➢ Take into account constraints in time, consider multiple solutions ➢ Organization setting may encourage or impede ethical conduct General Application ➢ Abu Ghraib ○ Org. structure ➢ Challenger / Roger Boisjoly ○ Org. culture/dissent channels ➢ Columbia ○ Org. structure/culture ➢ City of Bell, California ○ Defending decisions ● Consider org factors that encourage or impede what you are proposing ● Work through decision making model ● Define ethical problem ● Considering intervention strategies to make org supportive of ethical conduct 1st Step 2nd Step 3rd Step 4th Step “The Favorite Contractor”