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Ethics provides the preconditions for the making of good public policy as all policies depend on it. This book builds upon the authors’ teaching and research in government ethics. As a core text for upper-level undergraduate and beginning graduate students, it will examine conceptual tools to clarify moral experiences, analyze individual decision making strategies, and assess organizational ethics programs. The emphasis is not only on “how to,” but also “why.” The manuscript will be written in a manner accessible to academicians, students, and managers; it will to offer them practical knowledge and insight into ethics in government. To that end, the book is not about right and wrong answers. Rather it aims to understand ethics and human behavior in an analytical, yet provocative manner by extending one's ordinary moral experience by making it explicit, clearer, and more consistent.
At-Will Employment
At-Will Employment
Those who are fear'd, are hated.
This chapter is reproduced from Bowman and West (2007) with kind permission from Springer Science and Business Media.
The nature of the employer–employee relationship has undergone change during the last generation from a long-term career system to a short-term employment system (Bowman & West, 2006b). The risks of management decisions and market fluctuations, previously borne by institutions, have increasingly been shifted to individuals. As a result, the traditional social contract at work—job security in exchange for organization loyalty—has been eroded (Stone, 2004; West, 2013). One of the most sweeping measures is the at-will employment doctrine. It has been used to eliminate existing employee protections not only in private companies, but also in government service (Hays & ...
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