PA620: Leadership Ethics “The Art of Virtue” Day-Book

Outcome 1

First, list the virtues Franklin enumerates as they relate to the balance between deficiency and excess that Aristotle set forth. (Note that Franklin does some of this work for you.) For example, consider this list and make sure that your list of virtues is in the mean:

Outcome 2

1. Reflect on the virtues and decide if they are sufficient and necessary for our present times and for a public administrator; add those that you think should be part of a balanced approach to public administration and present the complete list with a brief explanation of why these virtues are important for your profession. Using Cooper, identify which of these virtues can be shaped by internal controls, as Franklin hopes, or by external controls?

1. Second, using the template (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.provided, create a day-book as Franklin has done and deduce how a public administrator should spend a typical day and what virtues she will call forth to be an effective and virtuous leader engaged in these activities. You have already complied the list of virtues, now connect them to the activity that embodies them in your professional life. Note that the template adapts Franklin’s scheme to make it more Ignatian, building in the kinds of reflective moments that are a hallmark of the Ignatian spirituality of our founders as well as identifying the concrete actions that illustrate virtue at work

Below is the Template

Use this template to create a day-book as Franklin has done. From your entries, deduce how a public administrator should spend a typical day and what virtues she will call forth to be an effective and virtuous leader. Using Cooper, identify which of these virtues can be shaped by internal controls, as Franklin hopes, or external controls.

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