Importance Of Ethics In Public Administration

While the study of public administration and their ethics can be found in many books, these books often have little information on ethics but it can be informative on the topic. The concept of ethic is a vague one to say the least. Ethical behavioral will often reflect the views of most people differently. Ethics is responsible for ensuring compliance. It is the backbone of public administration. It directs the way the administrator should behave, promotes transparency and compliance. The importance of ethical education for public administrator and their officials are the immersion in a continuous, positive, and visible effort to instruct government employees about their democratic responsibilities to the public which they serve. The contents of the articles reviewed expressed the wide ranging information about ethics in public administration.

Here Thompson, (p, 1) writes that the chief job of ethics officers is to provide counseling and training on ethics. In fact he states that they need to do more than be an overseer of the paperwork associated with ethics legislation. Or the enforcer of rules or specific sets of standards, which they have to educate public officials as part of their duties in accordance of their role in the American democracy. The main trouble of this educational part in our democracy is the paradoxes or misconceptions that plague the work of ethics officers because of 3 main reason: 1. the relative importance of ethical issues, 2. the conflict between public and private ethical behavior, and 3. the importance of appearances. Hence, the importance of ethical education for public administrator officials is involvement in a continuous, positive, and visible effort to educate government employees about their democratic responsibilities (Thompson,