Analysis Of The Totally Avoidable Tragedy
TOPIC: ETHICS OF ADMINISTRATION (POAD 8137)
Student name: Hung Tran Duy
Student ID: 2156098
Question 3: Watch one of the videos (detailed below) on whistle blowing and critically analyze it using the ethics toolkit. Choose one of the videos to discuss critically with reference to ethical frameworks.
The video “The totally avoidable a tragedy” (ABC 2009) are chosen to study.
I. INTRODUCTION
The video 'A totally avoidable tragedy' (ABC 2009) presents the situation of the deaths of five local people in the Mala Sara, Australia. They took a boat to return home after a meeting. However, the boat sank because of big waves and the lack of help and boat equipment. The tragedy unveiled management issues in the public sector including ethics and accountability. In this case relevant government officials did not behave …show more content…
CONCLUSION
In conclusion, the video “The totally avoidable a tragedy” (ABC 2009) shows the death of five local people living in Malu Sara. The tragedy is relevant to the management problems in public sector because the government officials have many unethical and unaccountable activities, which could be done by other better ways as mentioned before. By applying the ethics toolkit which has three approaches including idealism, Pragmatism and virtue ethics to discuss and analyze this video, it can help those involving and studying this issue to understand and make this problems become better.
References
ABC 2009, A totally avoidable tragedy, .
Akkerman, T 2003, 'Populism and democracy: challenge or pathology?', Acta Politica, vol. 38, no. 2, pp. 147-59.
Baggini, J 2007, 'The ethics toolkit: A compendium of ethical concepts and methods'.
Bommer, M, Gratto, C, Gravander, J & Tuttle, M 1987, 'A behavioral model of ethical and unethical decision making', Journal of business ethics, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 265-80.
Preston, N, Sampford, CJ & Connors, C 2002, Encouraging ethics and challenging corruption: reforming governance in public institutions, Federation
Student name: Hung Tran Duy
Student ID: 2156098
Question 3: Watch one of the videos (detailed below) on whistle blowing and critically analyze it using the ethics toolkit. Choose one of the videos to discuss critically with reference to ethical frameworks.
The video “The totally avoidable a tragedy” (ABC 2009) are chosen to study.
I. INTRODUCTION
The video 'A totally avoidable tragedy' (ABC 2009) presents the situation of the deaths of five local people in the Mala Sara, Australia. They took a boat to return home after a meeting. However, the boat sank because of big waves and the lack of help and boat equipment. The tragedy unveiled management issues in the public sector including ethics and accountability. In this case relevant government officials did not behave …show more content…
CONCLUSION
In conclusion, the video “The totally avoidable a tragedy” (ABC 2009) shows the death of five local people living in Malu Sara. The tragedy is relevant to the management problems in public sector because the government officials have many unethical and unaccountable activities, which could be done by other better ways as mentioned before. By applying the ethics toolkit which has three approaches including idealism, Pragmatism and virtue ethics to discuss and analyze this video, it can help those involving and studying this issue to understand and make this problems become better.
References
ABC 2009, A totally avoidable tragedy, .
Akkerman, T 2003, 'Populism and democracy: challenge or pathology?', Acta Politica, vol. 38, no. 2, pp. 147-59.
Baggini, J 2007, 'The ethics toolkit: A compendium of ethical concepts and methods'.
Bommer, M, Gratto, C, Gravander, J & Tuttle, M 1987, 'A behavioral model of ethical and unethical decision making', Journal of business ethics, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 265-80.
Preston, N, Sampford, CJ & Connors, C 2002, Encouraging ethics and challenging corruption: reforming governance in public institutions, Federation