Alexandra Morrison (HU) and Adam Wellstead (SS) are co-authors of a paper published in Teaching Public Administration.
The paper is titled “Reclaiming public service ethics through algorithms: Implications for teaching and development.”
Helen Dickinson of the School of Business, University of New South Wales- Canberra, Australia, is also a co-author of the paper.
In this multidisciplinary authored paper, Morrison, Wellstead and Dickinson argue that public service leaders must be attentive to ethical questions that converge around adopting “data-driven” techniques, including algorithmic decision-making. Algorithmic and technology focused ethics question assumptions about the current deficits within public service ethics pedagogy in public service programs and university programs and the future direction of the discipline. To do so raises longstanding but neglected questions about the public services’ role in the state.