Public Sector Ethics

Compliance, Integrity, and Comparison
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-72728-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 513 g

Reihe: Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management

Public Sector Ethics: Compliance, Integrity, and Comparison presents a comprehensive treatment of the subject of ethics in the public sector. What structural elements are necessary and how to create organizations that make ethics their priority are the questions that this edited book addresses. It focuses on ethics management in public organizations and includes national case studies from select low- to middle-income countries.

Taken together, the chapters in this book cover the mechanisms, activities, and approaches that public organizations employ in ethics management. These are of utmost importance because the actions of public organizations affect citizens’ lives, liberties, and property, and their ethical character affects citizens’ faith in government. Numerous factors are at play in each instance of ethics management in public organizations, and controlling ethical behavior is difficult. This book suggests that effective ethics management requires a comprehensive approach. Traditional approaches such as ethics codes, policies and legislation, training, incentives, sanctions, monitoring, and compliance reviews are tools to achieve ethical conformity. Yet, they are effective only if leadership, values, and cultural transformation support them. This edited volume is a cohesive treatment of the subject, covering traditional approaches to ethics management, such as monitoring and compliance, and more contemporary approaches, like integrity building through ethical leadership and organizational values, as well as how to skillfully and effectively combine them to change organizational ethical contexts.

This book exposes readers to new approaches and emerging issues in public sector ethics, aids in understanding the challenges of creating ethical organizations, and helps to develop a deeper understanding of ethics management in government organizations. It will be of interest to researchers, academics, and advanced students in the fields of business ethics, public administration and management, leadership, and organizational studies.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Reddick, Christopher

Demir, Tansu

Perlman, Bruce J

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Verwaltungswissenschaft, Öffentliche Verwaltung
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility Unternehmensethik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Management: Führung & Motivation
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Organisationstheorie, Organisationssoziologie, Organisationspsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Contributors

 

Introduction

Christopher Reddick, Tansu Demir, and Bruce Perlman

 

Chapter 1: What is Compliance? The Coercive Approach to Ethics Management

Danny Carr

 

Chapter 2: Ethics Codes, Codes of Conduct: Definitions, Applications, and Effectiveness

Diane L. Odeh and Jessica Homer

 

Chapter 3: Ethics Training and Employee Development

Brett Sharp

 

Chapter 4: Sanctions and Incentives

Nevbahar Ertas

 

Chapter 5: What is Integrity: A High-Road Approach to Ethics Management

Edgar Karssing and Alain Hoekstra

 

Chapter 6: Does Leadership Matter? Why and How?

Rusi Sun and Yahong Zhang

 

Chapter 7: The Power of Organizational Values: Communication, Conflict, and Alignment in Shaping Employee Behavior and Decision Making

Chevanese Samms Brown and Karen D. Sweeting

 

Chapter 8: Public Sector Ethics in the Americas: The Brazilian Public Ethics Management Case Study

Temístocles Murilo de Oliveira Júnior and Joaquim Manuel Croca Caeiro

 

Chapter 9: Preconditions for Anti-Corruption Reform: The post-1989 Italian experience and lessons

Daniel L. Feldman and Jason Rivera

 

Chapter 10: Public Integrity Compliance in Thailand

Amporn Tamronglak, Patthara Limsira, and Tass Pongpisit

 

Chapter 11: Political Leadership and Public Sector Ethics in Africa: A Comparative Study of Ghana and Rwanda

George Babington Amegavi and Zechariah Langnel

 

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Christopher Reddick is a professor in the Department of Public Administration at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), USA.

Tansu Demir is an associate professor in the Department of Public Administration at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), USA.

Bruce J. Perlman is Regents’ Professor in the School of Public Administration at the University of New Mexico, USA.