The Assignment (3–4 pages in APA format): Your paper should include the following:
- A description of the ethical issue you identified in the “Guerrilla Government in EPA’s Seattle Regional Office†case study
- A description of the issues the political appointees faced in this case and an explanation of federal ethics law violations
- An explanation of why you think the career employees were motivated to use guerrilla tactics as a solution despite the risks to their careers (e.g., competing obligations) and whether their choice of guerrilla action was ethical
- An explanation of how these actions affected the organization and public policy
- A description of the actions leaders within the EPA might have taken to manage guerrilla government and an explanation of how those actions might have changed the outcome of the situation
- An evaluation of the potential lessons for public administrators and the importance of these lessons
sources
O’Leary, R. (2020). The ethics of dissent: Managing guerrilla government (3rd ed.). Washington, DC: CQ Press.
- Chapter 3, “Guerrilla Government in EPA’s Seattle Regional Officeâ€
- “Second Interlude: More Stories of Guerrilla Governmentâ€
- Chapter 7, “Managing Guerrilla Government: Ethical Crusaders or Insubordinate Renegades?”
USDA Office of Ethics. (2000). A brief wrap on government ethics. Retrieved from https://www.ethics.usda.gov/science/docs/briefwrap_00.pdf
U.S. Office of Government Ethics. (n.d.). Retrieved April 4, 2016, from https://www2.oge.gov/
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