Project Summary: Fionas Case: An Ethical Dilemma for a Program Evaluator Ethical dilemmas represent an important consideration for public policy and administration professionals. Organizational stakeholders and their values and principles present unique challenges for program evaluators. For this Discussion, review Fionas Choice: An Ethical Dilemma for a Program Evaluator on page 473 in the McDavid course text. Post by a response to the following: QUESTION: Post a 1 to 2 page response to the following: List values and principles that would be important to the main stakeholders in this situation, both for Fiona and the organization. Use the AEAs guiding principles for evaluators as a guide. Explain the values and principles that you selected as important to the main stakeholders and how you would handle this situation. _____________________________________________________________________________________ Introduction Assume you have completed your evaluation. Your sponsoring organization, your stakeholders, or your manager may want you to revise your findings to accommodate their priorities and goals. Sometimes these priorities and goals are not clear. What do you do? In some instances, these scenarios involve matters of right versus right, not right versus wrong. Occasionally, an evaluator must choose between ways of resolving conflicting priorities and goals. Each alternative may be the right thing to do, but there is no way to satisfy everyone. Joseph Badaracco (2003) has noted that there are three basic types of right-versus-right problems: those that raise questions about personal integrity and moral identity; conflicts between responsibilities for others and important personal values; and, perhaps the most difficult, those involving responsibilities that your stakeholders, sponsor, or agency shares with other groups in society. This week, you examine the principles important to stakeholders and types of ethical dilemmas. Learning Objectives Students will: Evaluate values and principles important to stakeholders Analyze stakeholder roles in the evaluation process Identify ethical issues Analyze need for evaluation _____________________________________________________________________________________ Required Resources Note: To access this week's required library resources, please click on the link to the Course Readings List, found in the Course Materials section of your Syllabus. Readings McDavid, J. C., Huse, I., & Hawthorn, L. R. L. (2013). Program evaluation and performance measurement: An introduction to practice (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. o Chapter 12, The Nature and Practice of Professional Judgment in Program Evaluation (pp. 439478) Morris, M. (2011). The good, the bad, and the evaluator: 25 years of AJE ethics. American Journal of Evaluation, 32(1), 134151. Retrieved from the Walden Library databases. Picciotto, R. (2011). The logic of evaluation professionalism. Evaluation, 17(2), 165180. Retrieved from the Walden Library databases. Frierson, H. T., Hood, S., Hughes, G. B., & Thomas, V. G. (2010). A guide to conducting culturally responsive evaluations. In J. F. Westat (Ed.), The 2010 user-friendly handbook for project evaluation (pp. 7593). Retrieved from https://www.westat.com/sites/westat.com/files/2010UFHB.pdf Optional Resources American Evaluation Association. (2004). American evaluation associations guiding principles for evaluators. Retrieved from http://www.eval.org/p/cm/ld/fid=51 Ramirez, R., & Brodhead, D. (2013). Utilization focused evaluation: A primer for evaluators. Retrieved from http://evaluationinpractice.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/ufeenglishprimer.pdf