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Ethics in Adminitration

...... Cooper notes that there can be a problem of loyalty when it comes to discerning the limits of our objective responsibility to our superiors. Typically, it is a matter of conflict between our formal obligation to those with a higher level of responsibility and authority within the organization on the one hand, and our fiduciary relationship to the public on the other (200). This is seen in public administrators who are accountable to their superiors as well as to the public proximately and routinely to the former, but ultimately and more importantly to the latter (200). Cooper says that when we have these conflicting feelings of loyalty, the obligation is always to the public and therefore sometimes there needs to a be a breach in loyalty when it comes to the organization. This, of course, is what the term whistle-blowing is all about (2010). Whistle-blowing can have many adverse effects on the person doing the whistle-blowing and there are definitely feelings of loneliness that can arise when a whistle-blower decides to make some noise. Cooper gives some prime examples of whistle-blowing cases in chapter six, but he insists that there are still many who have gone away quietly