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Running head: UNMASKING ADMINISTRATIVE EVIL: ARTICLE REVIEW
UNMASKING ADMINISTRATIVE EVIL: ARTICLE REVIEW
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UNMASKING ADMINISTRATIVE EVIL: ARTICLE REVIEW1
Introduction
The article in focus for this review is Unmasking Administrative Evil by Guy B. Adams
and Danny L. Balfour. The article critically examines and comments on the various forms evils
that can be cultivated by the administrative forces that run various countries or organizations.
The writers have aimed towards understanding the implications of administrative evil at various
levels of the society or organization.
Summary
The article starts by describing the various aspects connected with administrative evil in
an introductory manner. The writers introduce the topic of administrative evil. Moving forward
the article examines the prevalent ethical and rational approaches to ethics across many
organizations and public service areas. The teleological perspective of greater good and
deontological perspective of ends and means concerning ethics have been discussed (Adams &
Balfour, 2015). The articles describes as the present ethical standards across organizations to be
necessary however insufficient. The present ethical frameworks are evaluated to be flawed. The
article later moves on to describe the challenges related to administrative evil. The writers opine
that the current challenge for organizational administration is the fact that unethical practices can
be passed off as apparently good administrative practices based on technical-rational
perspectives. The situations of globalization and population boom affecting the standards of
ethical perspectives have been discussed. The article concludes by mentioning the significant
findings from various literatures.