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SPirituality and dialogue
Thomas D. Lynch, Carlene ThorntonThis article serves as an introduction to this symposium on spirituality and Dialogue. The purpose of the symposium is to explore if spirituality and dialogue have a place in…
Spiritual wisdom and public administration: Are they compatible?
Thomas D. Lynch, Cynthia E. LynchThis article argues for the use of spiritual wisdom in the profession of public administration. Given the problems emerging from the information age, this article projects some…
The promethean spirit in public administration: Spirituality without crutches
Hugh T. Miller, Charles FoxThis is a cry: “Let us face reality!” This article builds on Friedrich Nietzsche and argues against transcendental truth, which is the basis of spirituality. Instead, we need…
Reflections on maintaining a spirituality in the government workplace: What it means and how to do it
Willa Bruce, Edward F. PlochaThis article offers ways to be spiritual in the public workplace. First, this article is not about religion but spirituality. Second, this article explains the current American…
Ethics in the information age
Douglas James Joyce, Linda deLeonEthics in the Information Age requires an awareness of abstracted reasoning just as information itself is the integration of abstracted data. Recent works by Gibson and Boisot are…
Values, program evaluation and the new public management
Peter L. CruiseThe Information Age, while offering public managers great opportunities in networked organizations and relationships using New Public Management (NPM) techniques, also presents…
The ethics of productivity: Toward increased dialogue and customer-based accountability
Evan M. Berman, Montgomery Van WartThe ethics of recent productivity improvement strategies requires an open and inclusive dialogue among diverse stakeholders, as well as customer-based accountability. By contrast…
Organizational design and ethics: The effects of rigid hierarchy on moral reasoning
Richard D. WhiteThis study investigates the relationship between organizational design and ethics. It argues that an organization designed in a rigidly hierarchical structure restricts the moral…
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1093-4537Online date, start – end:
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
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- Associate Professor Davide Secchi