ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on values and the daily work of career public professionals. Studying public service values makes the daily decision making easier and also change how values are prioritized or defined so they better serve the ends wish to be achieved. Values have always been part of practice and research in public administration. In the United States in the 1980s, President Ronald Reagan and his administration moved away from the idea of government as a way of solving collective problems to characterizing government itself as the problem. This situation could be dealt with by shrinking the public sector and allowing the states to take responsibility for some public services offered by the national government. Montgomery Van Wart and Charles Goodsell offered five value themes in public service. Van Wart uses individual values, professional values, organizational values, legal values, and public interest values. Charles Goodsell's five-part characterization is called as value orientations.
