Can a Supervisor's Ethical Character be Assessed Objectively?
Abstract
Executive leaders in federal law enforcement are responsible for establishing core ethical values in their agencies and selecting supervisors for promotion who will maintain the climate. Assessing ethical a supervisor ethical character before promotion is extremely difficult. Executives assessing a supervisor s character will be influenced by their own beliefs and personal bias. The intent of this paper is to prove senior executives are not able to objectively assess a supervisor s character, but can be educated and trained to understand how morals and ethics affect a supervisor s decisions. This paper will analyze moral and ethical models and studies in order to explain how moral backgrounds and ethical influencers affect a supervisor s and senior executives decision making process and explain the reasons a supervisor s character will be different from the assessor s and can not be analyzed without personal bias.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Apr 12, 2013
- Accession Number
- ADA601588
Entities
People
- John A. Schmidt
Organizations
- Marine Corps University