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Ethics
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The paper will test…
• Candidates’ attitude and APPROACH to issues
relating to integrity, probity in public life
• Candidates’ problem solving APPROACH to
various issues and conflicts faced by him in
dealing with society
• Questions may utilize the CASE STUDY
APPROACH
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Session objectives
• Improving ethical literacy
• Becoming ethically competent
• Developing ethical point of view (ethical
reasoning)
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Ethical literacy
“Grasping the intricacies of complex ethical
issues and to see all of the consequences of
one’s actions.”
• “EL prevents a culture of ethical failure”
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Ethical Competencies
• Be knowledgeable of ethical principles
• Be aware and informed of relevant professional
codes of ethics
• Recognize and promote constitutional principles
of equality, fairness etc.
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Ethical competencies
• Recognize and support the public’s right to know
the public’s business
• Respect the law
• Serve the public law
• Respect and protect privileged information
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Ethical competencies
• Embrace and promote ethical behavior and
practices in the work place
• Refuse to do something unethical
• Maintain truthfulness and honesty
• Guard against conflict of interest
• Be responsible for one’s behavior
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Ethical competencies
• Recognize and differentiate between ethical and
management issues
• Engage in ethical reasoning
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Ethical Reasoning
Leads to making ethical judgments such as:
• “He is a good person”
• “Bribery is wrong, even though it may be
profitable”
• “The act was irresponsible”
• “Her character is admirable”
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Books
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Approach to ethics
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Introduction to ethics…
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What would our actions be if we
had no fear of being observed?
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Definition of Ethics
• "a body of prescriptions and prohibitions,
do's and don'ts” (Jonsen and Hellegers)
• “Ethics ... may be styled as the art of self-
government” (Bentham)
• ethics concentrates on human actions or on
the consequences of human actions
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Definition of ethics…
“ethics refers to well based standards of right
and wrong that prescribe what humans ought to
do, usually in terms of duties, principles,
specific virtues, or benefits to society.” (Andre &
Velasquez)
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Definition of ethics…
Duties: the behaviors expected of persons who occupy certain
roles
Virtues: qualities that define what a good person is; moral
excellence
Principles: fundamental truths that form the basis for
behavior
Benefits to society: actions that produce the greatest good for
the greatest number
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Ethical Principles
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Principle of Honesty
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Deception
Deception at three levels:
• Lying: Stating what you believe is false in order to mislead
others intentionally
• Stating half truth-deliberately omitting information
• Failure to speak at all when you know the truth
PRINCIPLE OF HONESTY = TRUST
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Principle of Doing no Harm
• Avoiding doing things that harm other people
• Accidentally
• Recklessly
• Requires us to avoid harming others in direct or
indirect ways
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Principle of Fidelity
• You should FULFILL YOUR COMMITMENTS
(agreements, contracts, promises, oaths etc.)binding
contracts
• You should ACT FAITHFULLY ( fulfill the obligations of
relationships you maintain) implied contracts
• IMPORTANT BASIS OF TRUST
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Principle of fidelity cont.
• At work fidelity requires that we follow standard
work place practices, respect lines of authority and
the established decision making procedures and
fulfill basic duties of our jobs. (role duties)
• No one has obligation to fulfill assignments that are
abusive or illegal
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Principle of Autonomy
• Refers to the ability to act in informed, considered,
rational ways, largely free from coercion.
Ways of violating the principle
• By using any form of coercion
• PEOPLE VIOLATE THIS PRINCIPLE TO ENSURE THAT
OTHERS ACT AS THEY WANT
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Principle of Confidentiality
• IS A UNIQUELY PROFESSIONAL WORK RELATED OR
ROLE BASED ETHICAL PRINCIPLE
• Principle implies that some information should not
be released to people outside of certain circles.
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Principle of Confidentiality cont.
How to decide whether or not information is
confidential?
• potential effects
• origin
• intent
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Principle of Lawfulness
Duty to know:
• Basic constitutional laws
• Legislative laws
• Executive or administrative laws
• Laws formed by judicial decisions
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Some important Ethical Rights
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Right to know
• Right to know is closely connected to the duty to inform
• Based on role & relationships, people have an ethical
right to information
• THE RIGHT DOES NOT IMPLY THAT YOU HAVE RIGHT TO
OBTAIN INFORMATION BY ANY MEANS AVAILABLE.
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Right to Privacy
• Right to control information about yourself
or access to that information
• “Right to be left alone”
• Choosing when to reveal personal
information is our decision
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Right to Privacy cont.
Importance of the right
• Invasion of privacy, may also violate the principle of
autonomy
• Violation of privacy often violates the principle of doing no
harm
• Right to privacy is essential for the protection of other
moral rights such as the right to think freely, to act feely, to
pursue happiness, to speak freely
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Right to Free Expression
• Is the right to express your opinion without
being penalized for doing so
• But you cannot say things that are damaging
and false or publish such comments in print
• CONTENT, INTENT AND EFFECT OF OPINION
MATTERS
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Duty based approach to Ethics
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Duty based Approach
• Duty based approach to ethics focuses on the
responsibilities (obligations) of public servants from
the nature of the position they occupy.
• In accepting office, officials make a “promise to live
up to the obligations of office…and to frame their
judgments by standards embedded in the office’s
responsibilities” (Dobel)
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Duty based Approach
Public servants are responsible to:
• People (citizens)
• Political superiors
• THEMSELVES AS PROFESSIONALS
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Basic duties from ethical perspective
• Put the public interest over personal interest
• Display service orientation and commitment to serve
• Have a commitment to procedural fairness
• Exercise fiduciary responsibility
• Be bound by and uphold the law
• Support democratic process
• Be responsive to the policy goals of political superiors
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Putting Public Interest Over Personal Interest
• Core of public ethics
• Implies avoiding conflict of interest
• public servants not use public office for
personal gain
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Dedicated to service
• They should not behave
in ways that are
convenient for
themselves or with
little regard for the
citizens with whom they
interact.
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Procedural fairness
• Ensuring that all persons are treated in the
same way or treated consistently
• It ensures that citizens are not treated
arbitrarily, discriminated against, or ignored
when others are receiving a service
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Fiduciary Responsibility
• Making the best possible use of resources made
available to them
• They should spend frugally
• They should seek to be effective and to achieve the
greatest accomplishments with the best use of
resources available
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Basic duties
• Be bound by and uphold the law
• Support democratic process
• Be responsive to the policy goals of political
superiors
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Character v/s Action
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Virtue Based approach to Ethics
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The Beginnings…
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The beginnings…
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The beginnings…
• Aristotle is associated with the origins and his
NICHOMACHEAN ETHICS is the original source book
for a practical ethics of good character
• “For a while it is satisfactory to acquire and preserve
the good even for an individual, it is finer and more
divine to acquire and preserve it for a people and
for cities”
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The beginnings…
• Virtue ethics has always been marked by the
obligation to transcend one’s own self interest
ROMAN STOICS
• Who were often statesman-philosophers, made the
fusion of moral virtue and political obligation into a
more powerful conception of civic virtue
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The beginnings…
• “civic humanism (virtue) conceives of man as a
political being whose realization of self occurs only
through participation in public life, through active
citizenship in a republic. The virtuous man is
concerned primarily with the public good or
commonweal, not with private or selfish ends.”
CORRUPTION IS THE ABSENCE OF CIVIC VIRTUE
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The growth
• Following the Roman
concern with civic
virtues, St. Thomas
Aquinas moved the
concept into Christian
theology and extended
its influence.
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The growth
• Renaissance and
Enlightenment solidified
the fusion of moral virtue
with civic responsibility,
articulating a civic
philosophy of good
character
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The growth
• civic virtue was
prominent in the debates
of the Philadelphia
Convention [which] are
notoriously the highest
point ever reached by
civic humanist theory in
practice . . ."
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The growth
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The 1950’s
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What is ‘virtue’?
• 1755: Dr. Samuel Johnson wrote, “virtue is defined as
moral goodness and a particular moral excellence”
• “conformity of life and conduct with moral principles;
voluntary observance of the recognised moral laws or
standards of right conduct; abstention on moral
grounds from any form of wrong doing or vice”
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Principle v/s Rule
• In ethics of virtue, the principles (convictions)
are superior to the rules, because the former
require thought and intentionality, as
opposed to simple obedience, when they are
applied to actual situations.
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Voluntary observance
• The phrase “voluntary observance” is also
essential because as most of the philosophers
of virtue recognised, virtue cannot be
compelled; the good character of the virtuous
man or woman must be achieved voluntarily.
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Emphasis
• Places primary emphasis upon the development of
internal qualities of character and only secondarily
upon obedience to external moral rules
• That only through a life of virtue that persons can
become fully human
• It is the precondition for the attainment of human
flourishing and genuine community
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Central Ideas
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Cardinal Virtues
“By a set of cardinal virtues is meant a set of
virtues such that (1) they cannot be derived
from one another and (2) all other moral
virtues can be derived from or shown to be
forms of them” (Frankena)
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Earliest Cardinal Virtues
• Prudence: ability to discern the most suitable,
politic, or profitable course of action, esp. as
regards conduct, practical wisdom, discretion
• Justice: the quality of being just or righteous; the
principle of just dealing; the exhibition of this
quality or principle in action; just conduct;
integrity; rectitude
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Earliest Cardinal Virtues
• Fortitude: moral strength or courage, unyielding
courage in the endurance of pain or adversity
• Temperance: the practice of restraining oneself in
provocation, passion, desire etc.; rational self
restraint
In middle ages faith, hope, charity
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Contemporary Cardinal Virtues
• Trustworthiness: honesty, integrity, reliability,
loyalty
• Respect: civility, dignity, autonomy, tolerance,
acceptance
• Responsibility: accountability, pursuit of
excellence, self reliant
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Contemporary Cardinal Virtues
• Fairness: Process, impartiality, equity
• Caring
• Citizenship
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Excellence in Moral Character
• For an individual to be virtuous, he or she
must intentionally, voluntarily and constantly
be in the process of creating a noble character.
• For this reason ethics of virtue has often been
made synonymous with an ethics of good
character
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Conclusion
• All individuals are born with an innate imperative to
virtue
• Virtue is necessary to be fully human
• The cardinal values must be intentionally cultivated
• One must engage in intentional voluntary moral action
• One requires unending moral improvement- “use it or
lose it”
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Consequentialist Approach
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Introduction
• people needed to learn
“how not to be good” and
“how to use good and bad
for BENEFICIAL ENDS.”
• Ethical merit of an action
should be judged by its
CONSEQUENCES rather
than virtues of the actor
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Introduction
• Emphasizes on ends, purposes and goals that
result from actions rather than principles that
precede action.
• An action is right or wrong depending on its
consequences.
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Introduction
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Bentham
• “by the principle of utility is meant that principle
which approves or disapproves of every action
whatsoever, according to the tendency it appears to
have to augment or diminish the HAPPINESS of the
party whose interest is in question; or what is the
same thing in other words, to promote or to oppose
that happiness.”
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Bentham
• “by utility is meant that property in any object,
whereby it tends to produce benefit, advantage,
pleasure, good or happiness, or to prevent the
happening of mischief, pain, evil or unhappiness to the
party whose interest is considered; if that party be the
community in general, then the happiness of the
community; if a particular individual, then the happiness
of that individual.”
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What is utility?
• Central notion of utilitarianism
• Utility represents a particular positive value to
people and is considered good
• General term for things people prefer
• Utility is subjective
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Central Ideas
• Proposes that an action is morally right when it leads to something
people prefer, whereas an action is considered morally wrong
when it leads to something people do not prefer.
• whether a certain action is right or wrong does not depend on
what the kind of action it is (whether it is a case of
lying or killing) or with what intention it is performed (whether it is performed with good or bad intentions)
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Central Ideas
• morally correct actions are not simply all actions with
favorable consequences, but the morally correct action
is one which produces the BEST CONSEQUENCES
• It is not a selfish theory. It proposes that that action
which maximizes the utility of all parties involved is
right.
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Advantages
• Unlike other approaches, it is not oblivious of results, it
looks beyond the act to the consequences of the act in
determining whether it is right or wrong.
• It also permits flexibility. Rules or principles are rigid and
flexibility is needed to respond to changing situations
• It is what one accomplishes that is important, rather
than how it is done
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Disadvantages
• What is happiness?
• Why should it be pursued?
• How is it measured, now and in the future?
• If only ends of an individual’s actions are considered,
then there is a great potential for abuse
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Deontology or Principle Based
Approach
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Duty v/s Principle approach
• Principle based approach emphasizes what is
right in a universal or objectively verifiable
sense
• Duty based approach emphasizes obligations
derived from the nature of public service role
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Central ideas
• This approach relies in principles rather than
virtues
• To use this approach one needs to have
knowledge of a set of principles and the
deductive capacity to appropriately apply
those principles to actual situations
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Central ideas
• Does not focus on the consequences of actions,
but on certain principles of actions that are valid
at all times, irrespective of the consequences
• It involves characteristics that make an action
morally right or wrong in itself because an
important moral principle is respected or
violated.
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Central ideas
The approach can be defined as:
“when performing an action, it is your moral
duty to choose the alternative that complies
with a valid moral rule or principle, irrespective
of the consequences of such a choice.”
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Advantages
• Provides an external source of ethical guidance.
The principles are greater than oneself, one’s
organisation and one’s society.
• The principles are by their nature, good reasons
to act- not because of the consequences- but
because they are independently valid
• Focuses on how to act?
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Disadvantages
• Does not explain, what to do when there is a
conflict among principles
• No guidance on how to handle exceptions
• Requires knowledge of principles
• No guidance on ordering of principles
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ETHICAL TRIANGLE
Virtue
Consequences
Duty
PRINCIPLE
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HUMAN ACTIONS
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Introduction
• Ethics focuses on deliberate human actions
• Actus humanus (deliberate human actions)
• Actus hominis (undeliberate human action)
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Requirements of Human Action
• Knowledge (benefits, principles,
consequences)
• Voluntariness
• Freely done
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Impediments to Human Action
IGNORANCE
• Ignorance of law
• Ignorance of fact (how law operates in a given
context)
• Invincible ignorance
• Vincible ignorance (that can be overcome by use of
common sense)
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Impediments to Human Action
Passion
Fear
• Grave fear
• Light fear
Habit
Pathological states
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Morality of Human Actions
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What is morality?
• Examination of human action to decide if it is
good or bad
• End or purpose means the reason for which a
person performs an action
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The Purpose of Human Action
• Epicureans: Pleasure
• Stoics: Cultivation of the mind or control over
knowledge
• Materialism: acquiring material goods
• Humanism: achieving prosperity & progress
for human race
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Determinants of Morality in Human Action
End or purpose of Human Action
• An action that is INDIFFERENT because of its object may
become good or bad
• An action that is GOOD because of its object may become
more good or less good or even bad because of the
purpose
• An action that is EVIL by its object may become more
wrong or perhaps less wrong
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Determinants of Morality in Human Action
Circumstances of a Human Action
• Includes such things as the act being done at a
particular time, in a particular place, by a
particular agent, in a particular manner
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Emotional Intelligence: Concepts, their
Utilities & Application in ADMINISTRATION &
GOVERNANCE
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Session objectives
• Understanding the inter-linkages between
Action & Emotion, Emotion & Reason
• Importance of EI in Administration &
Governance
• Learning EI concepts
• EI & leadership
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Can you recognize these common emotions?
• Angry
• Guilty
• Worry
• Disgust
• Bored
• Frustrated
• Confused
• Happy
• Jealous
• Sad
• Mean
• Rage
• Content
• Scared
• Shy
• Sorry
• Suspicious
• Surprise
• Tired
• Anxious
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Emotion & Action
• Concept of emotion is largely absent from
contemporary theories of action
• Philosophers of action concern themselves
with intentions, wants, purposes, desires,
beliefs, plans, volitions, without paying much
attention to emotions.
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Nature of emotion
Misconceived notions about nature of emotion:
• Emotions are irrational and disruptive
• Emotions are things that merely happen to people
rather than people do voluntarily
• The impact of emotions on action is at best indirect
and insignificant
SO EMOTIONS ARE IRRELEVANT TO HUMAN ACTION
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Emotion & Reason
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Indian perspective
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Emotion v/s Reason
• Emotion was conventionally considered as
opposed to the finest human ability REASON
• Emotion is primitive, unpredictable,
undependable and thus needs to be
controlled by reason
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Emotion – Reason Dichotomy
• There is the reason-emotion dichotomy; we are dealing
with two different kinds of mental phenomenon, two
conflicting aspects of mind
• Emotion is inferior and disruptive to the normal and
optimal functions of mind
• Emotion should be under control of reason for the
sake of our normal activities of thought and action
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David Hume
“Reason is, and ought
only to be the slave of
passions”
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Emotion v/s Action
• Emotions are commonly considered as things
that happen to us, out of control and
INVOLUNTARY
• The passivity of emotion is usually in contrast
to ACTIVITY, the hallmark of action
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Emotion v/s Action
• Actions are generally understood as things
that we do, perform and initiate rather than
things that merely happen to us
• Most philosophical theories of action
distinguish between what we do and what
merely happens
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Emotion not the Primary Reason
• Emotions can serve only as background factors,
indirectly affecting the motivational component of
Action
• Action requires appropriate motivational & epistemic
factors (Primary Reason).
• Motivational factors: intentions, desires, purposes
• Epistemic factors: beliefs
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Post 1990 developments…
• The dichotomy between emotion and reason has
been questioned by a number of philosophers,
psychologists and neurobiologists
• The relation between reason and emotion may
be that they are integral & supportive to each
other, rather than antagonistic and conflicting
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Post 1990 developments…
• Emotions are typically not the result of
deliberative, intellectual calculations, they are
not necessarily irrational or non-rational
• EMOTIONS ARE EVALUATIVE AND RESPONSIVE
PATTERNS THAT EMERGE THROUGH THE
EVOLUTION OF THE SPECIES AND THE
DEVELOPMENT OF INDIVIDUALS
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Post 1990 developments…
• They serve the function of providing appraisals about
whether what is happening is harmful, threatening or
beneficial to our well being under certain conditions
• In many cases, emotions rather than deliberate
intellectual calculations, supply the most reliable
information about the situations and ourselves and
provides the best ways to efficiently achieve our ends.
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Post 1990 developments…
• Emotion may also be integral to the processes
of reasoning and decision making (Damasio)
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Post 1990 role of emotion in our behavior
• Expression of emotions is inherently an
important means of social interaction and may
have a crucial impact on the life of others.
• Regulating emotions is quite common in our
everyday life. Emotion regulation is increasingly
recognised as an important skill of coping with
social and personal problems.
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Phases in Human Action
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2 Phases in Human Action
• Generation of an Action: this phase includes how
a plan or intention is formed, what decision or
choice is made and how an action is initiated.
• Execution & control of an Action: this phase
specifies how a plan or intention is executed or
carried out by human body.
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Emotion & Generation of Human Action
Emotions can influence the generation of an
action in 2 ways:
• The tendency & readiness to Act
• The decision to Act
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Emotion & Generation of Human Action
“Action tendencies and readiness are natural
consequences of a given emotional appraisal of
how to cope with the situation. They are also
shaped by evolution and adaptation.”
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Emotion & Decision Making
• Emotion may have an impact in the process of
decision making or choosing among alternative
options.
• From our daily experience and ordinary
psychological practice, it seems no less apparent
that emotions impact heavily on people’s
decision making process.
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Role of Emotion in Decision Making
NEGLECTED:
• Emotion plays only an insignificant &
negligible role in the real process of people’s
decision making
• Emotions are a disruptive force undermining
optimal decision making
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Impact of Emotion in Decision Making
• One advantage of emotion based decision
making is speed & efficiency: emotion helps
to frame the options of action to be
evaluated. Those courses of action associated
with strong negative emotional feelings will be
eliminated from consideration at the outset.
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Impact of Emotion in Decision Making
• Another striking advantage is that basing your
decisions on emotions helps to ensure that
the decisions are inherently significant to
you, taking into account what you really care
about.
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Emotion in Governance
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Emotion in Governance
• Profession of administration is based on
systematic rational thinking. Such thinking
draws substance from solid facts, reliable data
• Impersonality, formality, clear cut borders of
legitimacy, systematic order, rational thinking,
rule of law dominates.
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Emotion in Governance
• “Despite strong rationality and calls for
planned change and systematic order in public
administration, much of the activity in this
domain remains random, experience based,
intuitive, improvised or spontaneous.” (Sharkansky
& Zalmanovitch)
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Emotion in Governance
• Should we rely solely on rational thinking in
making good public choices?
• Do feelings and emotions have anything
positive to offer beyond the conventional
thinking of formality, order, and firm
bureaucracy?
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Emotion in Governance
• Scholars have started focusing on exploring new ways
to integrate knowledge derived from heart (feelings,
emotions and affections) with knowledge derived from
logic, rationality and facts.
• Responsiveness to citizens as clients, must carry with it
sensitivity and sympathy to public needs and demands
and this means being aware of feelings and emotions.
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Emotion in Governance
IMPLIES
• Systematic understanding of emotions and
feelings on one hand & rational intelligence on
the other
• Specific abilities of stake holders to understand
feelings and emotions in their immediate work
environment
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Emotional Public Administration
“Emotions of stakeholders in public
administration that reflect responses to changes
in the environment and involve specific
experiences, cognitions, bodily states, and
appraisals of the ongoing situation for change.”
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Intelligent Public Administration
“Ability to understand and solve problems in public
administration based on reasoning about abstract
relationships (politics), logic and organized actions
(bureaucratic order & managerial knowledge)
systematically learning targeted materials (policy
making) and responsiveness to stakeholders’
needs.”
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Emotionally Intelligent Public Administration
Is an ability to understand and to problem that
involves:
• Managing emotional responses of
stakeholders in public sphere
• Understanding emotions and emotional
meanings of others
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Emotionally Intelligent Public Administration
• Appraising emotions arising from situations
• Using emotions for reason based decisions
and policy making
• Identifying emotions in faces, voices,
postures, and other content during public
management activities
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