Summary of III Congreso de Gestión Ética 2015. Dra. Adela Cortina Orts

00:00:00 - 00:40:00

The video discusses the importance of having an ethical approach to public administration, and highlights the three main values that should guide administrators: honesty, diligence, and integrity. It also emphasizes the importance of having clear, uniform standards of conduct for all employees in the public sector, and urges public administrators to be honest, diligent, and principled in their work.

• 00:00:00 In his talk today, Dr. Adela Cortina Orts discusses the importance of ethics in public administration, specifically its role in forming professionals. She discusses the concept of "responsibility," which is essential to the ethical management of public institutions. She also touches on the issue of impartiality, arguing that all public officials should be treated equitably, but that some encounter preferential treatment due to their positions. Finally, Cortina addresses the issue of laws being known and understood by the public, concluding that lawmakers should focus on drafting better legislation rather than increasing the number of laws.
• 00:05:00 The video discusses the concept of ethics and its role in public administration. It discusses the origins of ethics in public administration, and highlights the importance of ethics in contemporary public administration. It talks about the three main ethics approaches – the ethical, the bioethical, and the economic – and how they arose in the 1970s. It also talks about the ethics of public administration, which emerged in the wake of the Watergate scandal.
• 00:10:00 In this video, Dr. Adela Cortina Orts discusses the importance of ethics in business. She discusses three models of business administration, and points out that all of them have principles and values that should be upheld by administrators at all levels. She also emphasizes the importance of having clear, uniform standards of conduct for all employees in the public sector.
• 00:15:00 The video discusses the three main values of the bureaucratic model of administration - legality, morality, and impartiality. It then discusses an anecdote about Jesuits Father Alberto Hurtado, who is famous for his work with the poor. The moral value of impartiality is harder to define, but it is important to remember that we should only act based on what is in our best interest and not be swayed by personal or emotional considerations. Finally, the video discusses the importance of impartiality when taking income tax decisions.
• 00:20:00 In this video, Dr. Adela Cortina Orts discusses the importance of ethics in public administration. She notes that there are three key virtues of ethics: honesty, diligence, and integrity. She says that the lack of these virtues in public administrators can lead to inefficient and chaotic bureaucracy, which ultimately harms the public. She urges public administrators to be honest, diligent, and principled in their work.
• 00:25:00 In this video, Dr. Adela Cortina Orts discusses the importance of having flexibility in management models in order to achieve successful outcomes. She tells the story of two friends who have opposite experiences in the public sector- one who works in government administration and the other who is not. Both enjoy making paellas, so they must know about the paella recipe. The first time they tried it together, the government employee found the recipe too difficult and decided to add his own ingredient. The other man, who had followed the recipe exactly, found his food was worse than before. This demonstrates the importance of taking into account individual preferences when making decisions in the public sector. Flexibility and individualism are also important values in the new management model, called '4-4-4.' These four values are economy, efficiency, effectiveness, and ethics. The last value, ethics, has been added in 1997, when the economy, efficiency, and effectiveness were first mentioned. The video finishes by discussing the importance of flexibility and individualism in order to achieve successful public sector outcomes.
• 00:30:00 The speaker discusses the importance of having an ethical approach to management, and why private and public management can't be compared without taking into account the different situations and contexts in which they operate. She goes on to discuss the three models of management-the first of which is based on the principle of efficiency, the second on the principle of quality, and the third on the principle of responsibility. She concludes with a discussion of the objectives, goals, and values that should guide the ethical management of public entities.
• 00:35:00 In her speech at the III Congreso de Gestión Ética, Dr. Adela Cortina Orts discusses the difficulty of ethics in the public sector, stating that it consists of discovering and applying ethical values in the context of civic administration. She goes on to say that this would be a good definition of agreement, continuing with the difficulty of ethics in the public sector: that it must involve three sides, the ethics of organizational cultures, the ethics of institutions, and the ethics of professionals. The difficulties in ethics for public servants include that it must be articulated across three dimensions: the ethics of organizations, the ethics of the institution that must have codes of ethics, and the ethics of the professionals. These three dimensions can sometimes conflict with each other, and I will be primarily talking about the ethics of professionals. What is important to remember is that there must be an ethics of the institution and organization, as well as the professional's own ethics, in order for an organization to function morally. Professional ethics must be true heroes and must also be internal, arising from a professional's sense of mission. Furthermore, every profession has an internal value that must be offered to those within the profession. These values might include virtues and principles of the profession. In order to
• 00:40:00 The video discusses the topic of ethics in management, focusing on the importance of treating all affected parties fairly, avoiding corporativism, and humanizing administration. It also discusses the importance of access to public office via meritocracy, and the need for employees to try to help their less fortunate co-workers. Finally, the speaker discusses the need for discretion in decision-making and the need to take into account the least advantaged when making decisions.