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Values bureaucrats should normatively possess for effective and moral administration of public service.
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The questions of what values public servants should possess to be able to perform their duties, and what moral standards should inform their decisions, lie at the heart of public administration and management debate. This debate can be traced back to the 1800s, with Purinton’s seminal work on the Ethics of the State (1897). The study of ethics has been highly interdisciplinary – borrowing concepts, theories, and applications from diverse fields, such as business administration, sociology, theology, psychology, philosophy, and law.
While there is general agreement on the necessity of public servants to undertake government functions in a fair and impartial manner, it has been more challenging for scholars and practitioners to agree on a standard conceptualization of what may be ethical, as well...
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El-Taliawi, O.G., Dayal, I. (2018). Ethics and Public Administration. 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_3449-1
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