Public Administration Ethics

Author: Guo Xiajuan
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Publish Date: 2003-05-01
Features: From Chapter One to Chapter Six, there is a consistent theme throughout, which is the interactive relationship between ethical values and administrative responsibility.
Chapter One introduces the background and process of the emergence of public administration ethics, outlining the trajectory of the separation and convergence between facts and values, as well as between management and ethics, presenting the process by which administrative ethics originate from administrative practices.
Chapter Two and Chapter Three showcase the core elements of administrative ethics, namely, administrative ethical orientation.
Chapter Two discusses the purpose-oriented administrative ethical orientation to understand how ethical values are reflected in administrative activities, how efficiency orientation guides and evaluates administrative decisions and actions, and how it reveals the ethical roots of administrative responsibility from one perspective.
Chapter Three discusses the obligation-oriented administrative ethical orientation to understand how the value goal of justice influences administrative activities and determines the basic responsibilities of administrative personnel.
Chapter Four starts from the practice of administrative personnel fulfilling their responsibilities, examining the negative impacts on the realization of administrative responsibility when administrative personnel violate public trust and engage in corruption. It further explores how effective institutional supervision can ensure the realization of basic ethical values.
Chapter Five explores from the internal perspective of administrative organizations what individual administrative personnel can do to address corrupt behavior that violates responsibilities. It further argues the relationship between high moral responsibility and individual morality, the source of individual administrative responsibility, the relationship between individual morality and the realization of administrative responsibility, and the impact of improving individual moral capacity on the realization of administrative responsibility.