CHAPTER 5
Page 91-103
Human/ Social, Community, and
Environmental Responsibilities
學號：MA060203
班級：碩研國企二甲
姓名：郭乃文
Introduction
In recent years, too many government business,
religious, community, and education leaders have
either forgotten or did not realize they are under
constant public scrutiny.
Budget support can be eroded and even reduced if
the public does not trust the departmental
management responsible for delivering needed
services to neighborhoods and communities.
Human-Social Responsibility
These refer to the ethical
standards that are established for
dealing with people.
Community Responsibility
Community responsibility
refers to the interaction between
the recreation, parks, and leisure
service organization and the
community it serves.
Environmental Responsibility
Preservation and conservation of the
environment is a foundational value of our
profession.
This chapter will explore these ethical areas
and the role that the recreation, parks, and
leisure service manager plays in promoting the
adoption of ethical standards by all members
of the agency.
Ethics Defined
The topic of ethics is receiving increasing, constant,
and deserved public attention. Scandals in both the public
and private sectors in recent years have made the general
public skeptical about the decisions and actions of
managers.
One’s ethical compass is developed from his or her
value system. Values are the foundation of our behaviors.
They drive decision-making and determine how we treat
others. Values are formed, learned, and assimilated from
families, schools, friends, and upbringing. They represent
things that matter the most to us. Value systems guide all
our decisions.
Human-Social Responsibility
Within the agency, there are certain ethical
guidelines that all employees need to follow to
ensure that they are fulfilling their humansocial responsibilities. Some of these are
rather obvious, such as conflict of interest, but
other rules of conduct have come about as the
result of technology.
Examples of social human-social responsibilities
case studies related to possible ethical violations
include the following:
1. An employee or member of a city board/commission asks for special favors
and/or harasses an employee in the organization in favor for a positive
evaluation.
2. An employee takes credit for another individual’s work or effort, resulting in
a positive judgment, evaluation, or promotion.
3. An employee seeks reimbursement for travel to a conference and requests for
full payment of per diem expenses even though all meals has been provided
as a part of a program package.
4. A program participant offers an employee a gift at the end of a program
session for their good service and assistance in enabling their participation in
the program even though the class was full at the time they registered.
Community Responsibility
The public recreation, parks, and leisure service
agency has two major responsibilities to the
community. The first responsibility involves public
policy and decision-making. The second is
concerned with the conduct of public programs.
The focus will be on public recreation, parks, and
leisure service organizations.
Public Policy and Decision-Making
Good public policy and decision-making requires adherence
to effective public input and fair and consistent treatment on
rules, procedures, and practices.
Public policy-making bodies should have a record of bylaws or rules of procedure to help guide policy decisionmaking.
Changing an agenda without properly posting the change 24
hours in advance of a posted meeting may cause the meeting
to be invalid and a violation of open meeting law.
Examples of community responsibility case
studies related to possible ethical violations
include:
1. The employee or member of a city board/commission owns property in
such close proximity to park property that is the subject of a zoning or
license application, the granting or denial of which could affect the value of
the employee or board member’s property.
2. The citizen board/commission member is a developer who files an
application for approval of a project. Not only must the citizen member
disqualify himself from consideration of the application, but the person
must also recuse himself from any participation on this issue at all.
3. The citizen board member or employee whose close relative has an active
interest in a program contract offered at a community center.
4. The citizen board member or employee is a nonsalaried official of a
nonprofit corporation that has an application to conduct public programs in
a park setting.
Conduct of Programs that Serve the Public
Ethics in community based programming have
taken on critical importance in our society.
Training of youth sport coaches and leaders
responsible for youth programs in all areas and
activities has also come under increasing public
scrutiny.
Environmental Responsibility
The relationship between and individual
human being and nature is so important,
fundamental, and deep within each of us that
many recreation, parks, and leisure service
managers take for granted the intrinsic value
and ethics of the environment.
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