TEACHING APPLIED ETHICS TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT MANAGERS: THE APPEAL – AND POSSIBLE PERIL – OF MOORE’S (1995) PUBLIC VALUE CREATION

Grant, B

TEACHING APPLIED ETHICS TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT MANAGERS: THE APPEAL – AND POSSIBLE PERIL – OF MOORE’S (1995) PUBLIC VALUE CREATION

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Citation:: Research in Ethical Issues in Organizations, 2021, 24, pp. 147-151
Issue Date:: 2021-01-01

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dc.description.abstract	Approximately a decade ago, at the commencement to what has now become my vocation – namely teaching local government managers – a close colleague and myself ‘discovered’ the theory of public value creation that was initially set out by Mark Moore in his 1995 book Creating Public Value: Strategic Management in Government and subsequently published a few articles on it. Reflecting on teaching the theory for the ensuing decade, three consistent themes emerge from my engagement with students. First, the appeal of the theory as we originally encountered it, in both its parabolic form and in its more advanced articulation, as a theory of public management; also, as a theory of the state. Second, students are consistently drawn to the ethical dimension of the theory. Here, the author demonstrates this appeal by way of an example from the work of one of his recent students. Third, the author provides an account of what has emerged as a potential problem – that the theory has an emotivistic appeal. The author argues that this potential problem can be countered by a thorough understanding of the work, and ensuing developments.
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dc.subject	1503 Business and Management, 1699 Other Studies in Human Society, 2201 Applied Ethics
dc.title	TEACHING APPLIED ETHICS TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT MANAGERS: THE APPEAL – AND POSSIBLE PERIL – OF MOORE’S (1995) PUBLIC VALUE CREATION
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Abstract:

Approximately a decade ago, at the commencement to what has now become my vocation – namely teaching local government managers – a close colleague and myself ‘discovered’ the theory of public value creation that was initially set out by Mark Moore in his 1995 book Creating Public Value: Strategic Management in Government and subsequently published a few articles on it. Reflecting on teaching the theory for the ensuing decade, three consistent themes emerge from my engagement with students. First, the appeal of the theory as we originally encountered it, in both its parabolic form and in its more advanced articulation, as a theory of public management; also, as a theory of the state. Second, students are consistently drawn to the ethical dimension of the theory. Here, the author demonstrates this appeal by way of an example from the work of one of his recent students. Third, the author provides an account of what has emerged as a potential problem – that the theory has an emotivistic appeal. The author argues that this potential problem can be countered by a thorough understanding of the work, and ensuing developments.

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