Open AccessTowards a New Public Ethics
Author(s) -
Michael Macaulay
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
policy quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2324-1101
pISSN - 2324-1098
DOI - 10.26686/pq.v16i1.6358
Subject(s) - plea , misconduct , sociology , work (physics) , political science , engineering ethics , media studies , law , engineering , mechanical engineering
This article is a very slightly modified version of Michael Macaulay’s Victoria University of Wellington inaugural professorial lecture, of the same title, which was delivered on 5 November 2019. It offers an overview of misconduct issues in the New Zealand public sector, and an explanation over the causes of toxic workplace cultures. It ends with a plea to develop a more specifically care ethics approach, to augment current public ethics perspectives. The lecture draws on seven years of accumulated research but foregrounds results from the three-year, ARC-funded Whistling While They Work 2 research project, for which Michael was the New Zealand lead.