ABSTRACT
Thus far I have discussed the nature of ethical responsibility as it applies to administrative practice in social organizations. I have considered some of the ways in which administrative ethics may be distinguished from other morally founded behavioral expectations and some of the reasons for, and consequences of that distinction. I have suggested that some of these expectations apply to non-administrative as well as administrative staff of social organizations. The expectations in each case are associated with 1) the functions which individuals perform in the organizations, 2) the relationships which those functions occasion, and 3) the risks to others and to the organizations which are generated and made possible because of the responsibilities which they carry, the functions they perform, and the relationships in which they engage in the performance of those functions.
