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Administrative Ethics

The document discusses the concept of administrative ethics in India, defining it as the professional code of morality for civil servants that regulates their conduct and behavior. It outlines the key principles of administrative ethics such as integrity, honesty, and devotion to duty, and notes factors like corruption that hinder the observance of these ethics. The document concludes that preserving high ethical standards among civil servants is important given the growing role of administration in society.

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Administrative Ethics

The document discusses the concept of administrative ethics in India, defining it as the professional code of morality for civil servants that regulates their conduct and behavior. It outlines the key principles of administrative ethics such as integrity, honesty, and devotion to duty, and notes factors like corruption that hinder the observance of these ethics. The document concludes that preserving high ethical standards among civil servants is important given the growing role of administration in society.

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ADMINISTRATIVE

ETHICS
B.A-II

P. G. Government College for Girls, Sector-11,


Chandigarh
ADMINISTRATIVE ETHICS
• Administrative Ethics
–denote the professional code of morality
in civil services
–constitute the moral fiber of civil servants
– regulate the conduct and behaviour of
different categories of civil servants
– provide ‘rules of the game’
• In the context of the growing size and role of
administration and its impact on the society, the
civil servants are expected to set-up high moral
standards not only for themselves but also for
the community at large
ADMINISTRATIVE ETHICS
Ethical conduct of civil servants has been defined by
different thinkers in the following manner
• Paul H Appleby
• preferred the expression ‘morality’ instead of
‘ethics’
• argued that morality and administration can not be
separated
• delineated the following attributes of a moral
administrator:
» Sense of responsibility
» Skills in communication and personnel administration
» Ability to cultivate and utilize institutional resources
» Willingness to engage in problem solving
» Ready to work with others as a team
» Personal confidence to initiate new ideas
» Preference to public needs, interests & sensitivities rather than
resorting to the use of raw bureaucratic power
ADMINISTRATIVE ETHICS

• Chester Barnard described ethics as:


‘governed by beliefs or feelings of what is right or
wrong regardless of self-interest or immediate
consequences of a decision to do or not to do
specific things under particular conditions’
• GlanStahl remarked that
‘Problem of ethical conduct of public official
arises by virtue of the power and influence that
he commands and the commitment that he
undertakes of loyal and disinterested service to
the public’
ADMINISTRATIVE ETHICS
Code of morality
• Civil service, being a profession in the modern state, has
developed a code of morality for its members.
• Code consists of traditions, precedents and standards
which have to be kept up by the civil servants.
• Britain was the first country, which developed a
democratic type of professional code for the civil
servants
• Germany (Prussia) to professionalize its civil servants
developed a professional code for the civil servants, but
it contained authoritarian, bureaucratic and other non-
democratic elements, besides the usual ethics
ADMINISTRATIVE ETHICS
Code of morality
• India has not developed any ethical code
for public administrators, there are, what
are called, the government servant
conduct rules.
• These rules lay down what constitutes
misconduct for the public servant.
• It is apparently implied that such
misconduct, which is not permitted, is also
unethical conduct
ADMINISTRATIVE ETHICS
Element/Component of Ethics

The various elements/components of Ethics are:

Integrity Honesty Loyalty to the nation


Efficiency Neutrality Non-partisan attitude
Anonymity Impartiality Devotion to the duty
Secrecy Fairness Non-corruptive
Sincerity Humbleness Sense of public good
ADMINISTRATIVE ETHICS
Need for administrative ethics:
• To check arbitrary activities of civil servants
• To promote sense of administrative responsibility
• To foster correct relations between citizen and civil
servants
• To cultivate high standards of conduct among civil
servants
• To preserve and promote public interest
• To facilitate better use of discretion by civil servants
• To improve efficiency in administrative process
• To strengthen the legitimacy & credibility in the system
• To stabilize relations between official &political
executives
• To foster & maintain high morals amongst all categories
of civil servants
ADMINISTRATIVE ETHICS
Factors determining observance of ethics
• Precedents& traditions set by ministers &top
administrators
• Communication patterns in the administrative system
• Effectiveness of disciplinary action on the civil servants
• Ethical standards &values existing in the society
• Attitude of political bosses towards administration
• Soundness of service conditions of civil servants
• Dynamics of internal relations in the organisation
• Soundness of training programmes organised to promote
professional consciousness among administrators
• Attitude of general public towards the administrators
ADMINISTRATIVE ETHICS
Hindrances
• Various factors which hinder the observance of
ethics by civil servants are:

Corruption Favouritism
Bribery Indifferentism
Nepotism Officiousness
Lawlessness Departmentalism
Political influence External pressures
ADMINISTRATIVE ETHICS
Conclusion
• Corruption prevalent in the system has effected
the observance of ethics badly
• Way back in 2000 B.C., Kautilya in his book
‘Arthashastra’ identified forty different modes of
corruption.
• He also referred to its inevitability and thus
remarked: “ Just as it is possible not to taste
honey that finds itself at the tip of the tongue, so
it is impossible for a government official not to
eat up at least a bit of the king’s revenue”
ADMINISTRATIVE ETHICS
• Efforts to identify modes of corruption has been an on
going exercise
• The Central Vigilance Commission has identified 27
modes of corruptions
• The following committees significantly contributed in
bringing out in open the prevalence of corruption and
decline in administrative ethics in India
-Bengal Administration Enquiry Committee(1944-45)
-A.D Gorwala’s Report on Public Administration(1951)
-Railway Corruption Enquiry Committee(1953-55)
-Santhanam Committee on prevention of Corruption(1962-64)

• Keeping in view the growing role of administration in


preserving and promoting social welfare, public interest,
the issue of observance of administrative ethics by the
civil servants has gained vast significance

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