Ethics Training
National Panel on Ethics Training
Robert Wechsler
At the annual Council on Governmental Ethics conference in Washington D.C.
From left:
- Kurt Nemes, World Bank Ethics Office
- Carla Miller, City Ethics
- Matt Cross, Office of Governmental Ethics
Online Course in Planning and Land Use Ethics
Robert Wechsler
Patricia
Salkin, director of the Government Law Center at the Albany Law
School and author of the Law
of the Land blog, which I often refer to, is teaching an
online ethics in planning and land use regulation course for
Rutgers University's Bloustein Online Continuing Education program.
Online Ethics Training and Information Materials
Robert Wechsler
Online Training List Updated May 24, 2013
More and more government ethics information and training materials are available online, so that they can be easily accessed at any time. Everything from FAQs to information sheets to plain-English guides to quizzes to videos.
More and more government ethics information and training materials are available online, so that they can be easily accessed at any time. Everything from FAQs to information sheets to plain-English guides to quizzes to videos.
Moral Imagination
Robert Wechsler
Due to President Obama, the word "empathy" is getting tossed around a
lot lately. What interests me is that his definition of the word
"empathy" is central to what ethicists call "moral imagination." And
moral imagination is central to government ethics.
Here's Pres. Obama's definition of "empathy" from his book The Audacity of Hope:
Here's Pres. Obama's definition of "empathy" from his book The Audacity of Hope:
Ethics Idol
Robert Wechsler
It's not easy to make ethics training enjoyable, so it's good to see how other people have tried. According to an
article in Human
Resource Executive, Cisco Systems came up with a parody of
American Idol, with parody songs about ethics situations and three
judges critically discussing each song/situation.