Public administration ethics in the Czech Republic

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985998%3A_____%2F22%3A00559336" target="_blank" >RIV/67985998:_____/22:00559336 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/62156489:43110/22:43921641 RIV/00216208:11220/22:10451516

Result on the web

<a href="http://doi.org/10.5771/0949-6181-2022-2-210" target="_blank" >http://doi.org/10.5771/0949-6181-2022-2-210</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/0949-6181-2022-2-210" target="_blank" >10.5771/0949-6181-2022-2-210</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Public administration ethics in the Czech Republic

Original language description

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.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50602 - Public administration

Project

<a href="/en/project/TL01000260" target="_blank" >TL01000260: Ethics in public administration</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal for East European Management Studies

ISSN

0949-6181

e-ISSN

1862-0019

Volume of the periodical

27

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

23

Pages from-to

210-232

UT code for WoS article

000824643100003

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85135754414