Ethical Decisions in Guerrilla Governments

Ethical Decision Making Models to Guerrilla Government

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Introduction

Guerrilla government as expounded on by O’leary (2014) can be explained as a system that involves resistance that is normally carried out by stakeholders who happen to be dissatisfied with some of the operations of an organization. In addition to that, it can also be pointed out that the operations of the guerillas also tend to be low key mainly due to the fact that the guerillas do not want to be considered as whistle blowers. This paper focuses on the case study titled Guerrilla Government in EPA’s Seattle Regional Office and discusses the case from different perspectives.

Ethical Issues identified from the case

Ethics as explained by Cooper (2012) entails how a person defines what is viewed as been right in certain situations. Many times, when one is working in a given organization, one will find himself/herself in some situations that will demand the person to address some ethical dilemmas as one is confused on whether to act in an ethical manner and face some consequences that will emanate from that decision or whether to act in a manner that is unethical.

From the case study, it can be pointed out that the ethical issue entails the use of approaches that will ensure that existing laws are circumvented when it comes to the use of the agency funds. Indeed, the first and the third administrators sought to disregard and stifle the staff and their knowledge and expertise, while at the same time retaliating against anyone on staff who differed with the agenda or the decisions of the administrator. Apart from that, it can also be explained that the poor treatment of professionals who attempt to adhere to the set rules is also a major ethical issue that tht also results to other ethical issues that involves waivers, handling of confidential information, and contempt for the protocols and the role of the agency and its...