Towards a New Public Ethics

Authors

  • Michael Macaulay

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26686/pq.v16i1.6358

Keywords:

New Zealand, ethics, misconduct, organisational culture, care

Abstract

This article is a very slightly modified version of Michael Macaulay’s Victoria University of Wellington inaugural professorial lecture, of the same title, which was delivered on 5 November 2019. It offers an overview of misconduct issues in the New Zealand public sector, and an explanation over the causes of toxic workplace cultures. It ends with a plea to develop a more specifically care ethics approach, to augment current public ethics perspectives. The lecture draws on seven years of accumulated research but foregrounds results from the three-year, ARC-funded Whistling While They Work 2 research project, for which Michael was the New Zealand lead.

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Published

2020-03-13

Issue

Vol. 16 No. 1 (2020): Focus On Family Wellbeing

Section

Articles

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