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Ethics in Public Administration and Government

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Ethics Management in the Public Service

Ethics management is generally defined as the process of applying ethics to organizational contexts, aiming at promoting ethical conduct and impeding unethical behavior (Frederickson and Ghere 2005; Kaptein and Schwartz 2008; Menzel 2010; OECD-PUMA 1998; Van Wart and Dicke 2008). The field of ethics management embraces various tools available to manage ethics in organizations to promote professional conduct and impede unethical behavior including ethics codes, ethics committees, ethics audits, ethics training, and other disciplinary measures for sanctioning unethical behavior and rewarding ethical behavior (Ireni-Saban 2015).

The Rationale for Ethical Codes

Ethics management in the public service is often governed by codes of ethics or codes of conduct. Codes of ethics are introduced as a set of values and professional standards to encourage practitioners to develop a sense of commitment to ethical behavior and professionalism among members of...

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    Liza Ireni-Saban

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Ireni-Saban, L. (2016). Ethics in Public Administration and Government. 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_2563-1

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