CHAPTER 5 Page Human/ Social, Community, and Environmental Responsibilities 學號： MA 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 human- social 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 by- laws or rules of procedure to help guide policy decision- making. 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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