{"id":160883,"date":"2022-01-12T12:55:53","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T07:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=160883"},"modified":"2022-01-12T13:27:56","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T07:57:56","slug":"answered-besides-domain-knowledge-a-public-official-needs-innovativeness-and-creativity-of-a-high-order-as-well-while-resolving-ethical-dilemmas-discuss-with-suitable-example","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/answered-besides-domain-knowledge-a-public-official-needs-innovativeness-and-creativity-of-a-high-order-as-well-while-resolving-ethical-dilemmas-discuss-with-suitable-example\/","title":{"rendered":"[Answered] Besides domain knowledge, a public official needs innovativeness and creativity of a high order as well, while resolving ethical dilemmas. Discuss with suitable example.\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Indian civil service is dominated by\u00a0<\/span>intelligent generalist officers<\/span><\/b>. While performance of their official function, they often\u00a0<\/span>face multiple ethical dilemmas<\/span><\/b>.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Domain knowledge<\/span><\/b>\u00a0is important in resolving ethical dilemmas because:\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. Civil servants with domain expertise are able to\u00a0<\/span>understand nuances and dynamics of particular field<\/span><\/b> that helps in resolving clash between conflicting values. For example: <\/span>E. Sreedharan<\/span><\/b>, metro man of India, is a civil engineer by education.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Government\u00a0<\/span>functions<\/span><\/b> have evolved becoming more <\/span>specialized and sophisticated<\/span><\/b>, particularly with greater role of private players in service delivery. For example: properly framing government contracts are necessary for transparency and accountability. \u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Domain expertise in civil servants helps in\u00a0<\/span>improving quality of decisions and service delivery,<\/span><\/b>\u00a0thus\u00a0<\/span>promoting public trust<\/span><\/b>. For example: Dr. Rajendra Bharud, the collector of Nandurbar, was able to manage second wave of COVID-19 in an effective manner because of his domain knowledge.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. System of domain expertise also\u00a0<\/span>promote merit, efficiency, objectivity<\/span><\/b>\u00a0while reducing reliance on outside expert consultation.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Even in private sector, people in top management have domain expertise that help them resolve dilemmas. Tough important, domain expertise in not sufficient in all cases.\u00a0<\/span>Innovativeness and creativity\u00a0<\/span><\/b>are also required for resolving ethical dilemmas:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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    1. Ability to find out of box solution that can help in\u00a0<\/span>reconciling seemingly diverging values<\/span><\/b>\/course of actions to resolve ethical dilemmas. <\/span>For example:<\/span><\/b>\u00a0Giving benefit of government scheme to someone lacking required document (Solution- Use of ICT to provide provisional documents).\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
    2. Different experts may offer different suggestions\/viewpoints for the same problem. A civil servant with creativity and innovation to\u00a0<\/span>identify right kind of data and advice<\/span><\/b>\u00a0for effective policy.\u00a0<\/span>For example:<\/span><\/b> During Covid-19 management on questions of Lives vs Livelihood, different experts had varying opinions. \u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
    3. It is also important for solving emerging\u00a0<\/span>inter-disciplinary problems<\/span><\/b>\u00a0while working under\u00a0<\/span>political, social and\u00a0economic\u00a0constraints<\/span><\/b>.\u00a0<\/span>For example:\u00a0<\/span><\/b>problem of bad loan is rooted in economic slowdown, wilful defaults, politics-business nexus and inability of banks to assess risk.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      So, both, domain expertise and creativity are important quality of a leader which enables him\/her to resolve various ethical dilemmas.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Indian civil service is dominated by\u00a0intelligent generalist officers. While performance of their official function, they often\u00a0face multiple ethical dilemmas.\u00a0\u00a0 Domain knowledge\u00a0is important in resolving ethical dilemmas because:\u00a0\u00a0 Civil servants with domain expertise are able to\u00a0understand nuances and dynamics of particular field that helps in resolving clash between conflicting values. For example: E. Sreedharan, metro man… Continue reading [Answered] Besides domain knowledge, a public official needs innovativeness and creativity of a high order as well, while resolving ethical dilemmas. Discuss with suitable example.\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":505,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704875622},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}