Challenges of Modern Public Administration and Ethical Decision-Making

The ąuestion of ethics is one closely linked to human existence involving character traits, conduct, ethics and morals of human beings. As, first and foremost, ethics has to do with actions of mań, it reąuires adjustments in one s actions and attitudes, espe-cially in the case of public administration, its management activities, decision-making processes, leadership and administrators in relation not only to their colleagues and superiors but the citizenry and generał public having in mind the basie principle of de-mocracy and its main attribute that is public participation in governing public affairs. The paper consists of several parts dealing with aspects of traditional and modern dem-ocratic public administration in relation to the active participation of citizens, ethical public management and leadership connected with the ethical decision-making processes, ethical models of decisions and their conceivable application in public administration.