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Civil Service Reform and Ethics

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Civil services; Ethics; HR reforms; Public administration reform

Definition

Evaluation of how morality and ethics are represented in the discourse about the reform of human resource management and in the context of new governance reforms

Introduction

Public administration and public HR policies are constituent parts of the system of government. As history shows, countries may survive without government but not without public administration. Until today, no government has completely privatized the delivery of public tasks, no public administration works like a private company, and no public HR systems have been totally aligned to private sector practices.

Despite its many specific features and importance for millions of people, the nature of public administrations and HR policies are not well known to the wider public. Moreover, public administration and HR policies as such rarely enjoy a high reputation. At best, public administration reform is an interesting subject for...

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  1. Public Management, University of Vaasa, Vaasa, Finland

    Christoph Demmke

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  1. Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA

    Ali Farazmand

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Demmke, C. (2019). Civil Service Reform and Ethics. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_3734-1

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