Ethical Conflicts In Administrative Practice Of Public Administrator In Contemporary China And Their Solutions

It is unavoidable that every public administrative organization and its members have to encounter various ethical predicaments in practice. Facing all kinds of ethical conflicts, public administrator must engage in difficult choices. The process of choice not only reflects public administrator's personal ethical qualities, but shows to which extent that public interests are guarded. Based on such an understanding, the thesis tried to analyze the ethical status quo of current public administrators and various forms of ethical dilemmas by applying theories of ethical predicament. It then proposed solutions to help administrative organization and its members get out of predicaments and defend public interests.There are four parts in this thesis. Part one combined the present realities with the introduction of a typical illegal case in taxation system. I analyzed the present ethical conditions of taxation system and its members and then probed into administrative ethical predicaments occurring in this case.Part two defined the concept of administrative ethical predicament, and discussed the causing reasons. I analyzed in this part the forms of ethical predicament of pubic administrators from the angle of conflicts of authorities, of interests and of roles. It was argued that such an analysis is beneficial to public administrators and to the maximization of public interest.Part three was an exploratory analysis on while facing ethical conflicts, how administrative organizations can provide institutional support for their members, and how public administrators can set up their ethical autonomy and further make a right choice, training themselves to deal with ethical conflicts in their experiences to defend public interests. This part offers principles of value priority for public administrators when they have to make choice. And the principles are put together like a pyramid, among which there are primary and secondary.Part four was a concluding remark. It showed why I wrote the thesis and how the discussion is relevant to public administrators. It helped them find the bottom line of the ethic as a public administrator, setting up their ethical initiative and training themselves a kind of independent judgment about value and finally going out of ethical predicaments.