APPLIED ETHICS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SHORT COURSE State and local governments in Australia are plagued impropriety and corruption. This five-day course provides participants with an understanding of the key concepts and theories in ethical and moral reasoning and how these apply to the practices of state and local government in Australia in particular. Completing this professional development program allows you to: • Make informed assessments about what is good and bad; right and wrong: Too often, our thinking about complex moral and ethical issues is merely intuitive or worse, robotic. This course allows you to understand key concepts in ethical and moral reasoning, including deviance, corruption, stakeholder theory and the state, and different types of ethical reasoning, including consequentialist (egoist; utilitarian) and deontological (i.e.: rights-based) reasoning and virtue ethics. • Understand how these concepts apply to you and your organisation – namely, how are ethical and moral principles implemented in institutions for decision-making therein; managing and interacting with stakeholders (citizens; consumers; suppliers; competitors) and for policy-making for positive discrimination, social justice and codes of conduct. • Focus on state and local government mechanisms of oversight, censure and reward – including negotiating these institutional mechanisms, and: • Apply these learnings to a broad range of professional, management and leadership practices. ABOUT THE PRESENTERS Dr Bligh Grant is Associate Professor, Politics, Policy and Public Administration at the Institute for Public Policy and Governance, University of Technology Sydney. He has taught politics, policy and applied ethics for over two decades across several Australian universities. A particular focus of Dr Grant’s work is local government and state-local relations. He is author of three recent books, Local Government in Australia: History, Theory and Public Policy (2017) and Funding the Future (2013) and Councils in Cooperation (2012). His first edited book, Pauline Hanson, One Nation and Australian Politics, was published in 1997. Dr Grant also sits on the Executive of the Australian Association of Professional and Applied Ethics (AAPAE). CONTENT WHO SHOULD ATTEND? Ethical and Moral Thinking: An Introduction State government employees and executives Types of Ethical Theorising Local government employees and executives State-Local Government Relations in Australia: An Overview Systemic Problems in Local Government in Australia Casework: from all states Managing Organisational Ethics: Tools and Techniques DATES 7-9 May (Block 1) & 4-5 June (Block 2) FEE $2,530.00 (GST free) LOCATION UTS City Campus MORE INFORMATION UTS Centre for Local Government/ UTS Institute for Public Policy & Governance University of Technology Sydney PO Box 123 Broadway NSW 2007 Register Now T: 02 9514 4738 E: [email protected] W: ippg.uts.edu.au UTS CRICOS PROVIDER CODE: 00099F
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APPLIED ETHICS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SHORT COURSE
State and local governments in Australia are plagued impropriety and corruption. This five-day course provides participants with an understanding of the key concepts and theories in ethical and moral reasoning and how these apply to the practices of state and local government in Australia in particular. Completing this professional development program allows you to:
• Make informed assessments about what is good and bad; right and wrong: Too often, our thinking about complex moral and ethical issues is merely intuitive or worse, robotic. This course allows you to understand key concepts in ethical and moral reasoning, including deviance, corruption, stakeholder theory and the state, and different types of ethical reasoning, including consequentialist (egoist; utilitarian) and deontological (i.e.: rights-based) reasoning and virtue ethics.
• Understand how these concepts apply to you and your organisation – namely, how are ethical and moral principles implemented in institutions for decision-making therein; managing and interacting with stakeholders (citizens; consumers; suppliers; competitors) and for policy-making for positive discrimination, social justice and codes of conduct.
• Focus on state and local government mechanisms of oversight, censure and reward – including negotiating these institutional mechanisms, and:
• Apply these learnings to a broad range of professional, management and leadership practices.
ABOUT THE PRESENTERSDr Bligh Grant is Associate Professor, Politics, Policy and Public Administration at the Institute for Public Policy and Governance, University of Technology Sydney. He has taught politics, policy and applied ethics for over two decades across several Australian universities. A particular focus of Dr Grant’s work is local government and state-local relations. He is author of three recent books, Local Government in Australia: History, Theory and Public Policy (2017) and Funding the Future (2013) and Councils in Cooperation (2012). His first edited book, Pauline Hanson, One Nation and Australian Politics, was published in 1997. Dr Grant also sits on the Executive of the Australian Association of Professional and Applied Ethics (AAPAE).
CONTENT WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
Ethical and Moral Thinking: An Introduction State government employees and executives
Types of Ethical Theorising Local government employees and executives
State-Local Government Relations in Australia: An OverviewSystemic Problems in Local Government in AustraliaCasework: from all states
Managing Organisational Ethics: Tools and Techniques
DATES 7-9 May (Block 1) & 4-5 June (Block 2)
FEE $2,530.00 (GST free)
LOCATION UTS City Campus
MORE INFORMATIONUTS Centre for Local Government/UTS Institute for Public Policy & GovernanceUniversity of Technology SydneyPO Box 123 Broadway NSW 2007
Register NowT: 02 9514 4738E: [email protected] W: ippg.uts.edu.au
UTS CRICOS PROVIDER CODE: 00099F
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