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Public administration ethics in the Czech Republic
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SYSNO ASEP 0559336 Document Type J - Journal Article R&D Document Type Journal Article Subsidiary J Článek ve WOS Title Public administration ethics in the Czech Republic Author(s) Bohatá, Marie (NHU-N)
Putnová, A. (CZ)
Rašticová, M. (CZ)
Seknička, P. (CZ)
Szurmanová, M. (CZ)
Cebáková, A. (CZ)Source Title Journal for East European Management Studies. - : Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft - ISSN 0949-6181
Roč. 27, č. 2 (2022), s. 210-232Number of pages 23 s. Language eng - English Country DE - Germany Keywords public administration ethics ; integrity ; ethical infrastructure OECD category Public administration R&D Projects TL01000260 GA TA ČR - Technology Agency of the Czech Republic (TA ČR) Method of publishing Limited access Institutional support NHU-N - RVO:67985998 UT WOS 000824643100003 EID SCOPUS 85135754414 DOI 10.5771/0949-6181-2022-2-210 Annotation This article introduces the results of the first survey of Czech civil servants specifically targeting the domain of public ethics. The survey serves a double purpose: to provide data relevant for the development of a tailor-made ethics training programme for public officials, and to answer two research questions: (1) What are the main factors influencing the core values in Czech public administration? (2) Does the existence of ethics resources contribute to an improved ethical climate in the Czech public administration as perceived by public officials? The findings show that an ethical code is the most widespread, but often the only, ethics instrument implemented in Czech public administration and that the code is not used effectively. The results also confirm a positive but weak influence of the number of ethics resources on the perception of the existence of ethical problems, and a slight direct correlation between a higher number of resources and the perception of positive ethics development in the workplace. No support is found for the assertion that the more ethics resources are used by the organisation, the greater is the importance of the organisational culture for decision-making. This empirical research illustrates that - unlike in other countries of the former Eastern Bloc - ethics has been a low-priority agenda in Czech public administration and that enhancing ethical standards, and thus increasing citizens’ trust in public services, will be a long-term process. Leadership and leading by example, alongside ethics education and training, are the avenues to pursue. Workplace Economics Institute Contact Tomáš Pavela, pavela@cerge-ei.cz, Tel.: 224 005 122 Year of Publishing 2023 Electronic address doi.org/10.5771/0949-6181-2022-2-210
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