Ethics‚ Integrity and Accountability in Public Sector: Practice and Lessons Learned in Latvia Aleksejs Loskutovs‚ Director Corruption Prevention and Combating Bureau Latvia 28 September 2006 (10 min.) The public sector in Latvia has undergone many important changes over the past decade. In mid 1990s Latvian government started a major public administration reform. This reform was one of the cornerstones on Latvia’s way to the European Union‚ which we joined in May 2004. Latvia made a great effort
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ACCOUNTABILITY & ETHICS Accountability - Is a formal relationship governed by a process. As a relationship‚ it involves a person or body in a position of authority assigning or negotiating with others the performance of certain responsibilities‚ ideally based on agreed-upon expectations and standards. -Paul G. Thomas To the Public‚ accountability is… A general subjective sense of responsibility‚ the upholding of professional values and standards even in the absence of external scrutiny
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Public Accountability: The Philippine Experience Introduction Under a democracy such as in the Philippines‚ the people’s fundamental faith in the integrity of political institutions is what holds the system together even under the most difficult times. The present situation in the Philippines is a test of this principle. Whether or not the test is passed with success is a matter yet to be seen. However‚ at this stage‚ what could be gainfully learned from present experience is the knowledge
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Hilario M. Olivo Jr. Ethics and accountability 1. Explain the difference between ethics and morality. On the basis of etymology‚ there is no difference between ethics and morality. On one hand‚ ethics comes from the Greek word ethos meaning “custom”. For the purpose of knowing‚ we can define ethics as the “study of the methods and principles used to distinguished rood from bad‚ [and] right from wrong action” (Articulo‚ 2003). On the other hand‚ morality comes from a Latin word mos or moris
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ACCOUNTABILITY IN PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS (A STUDY OF THE NIGERIAN STOCK EXCHANGE) MEANING AND NATURE OF ACCOUNTABILITY: Introduction: Incidents of a lack of accountability‚ often associated with an element of corruption‚ among public officials and institutions when rendering public services‚ is a worldwide occurrence. In an attempt to address this governance tendency‚ governments increasingly look towards more sophisticated managerial methods such as improved monitoring and evaluation systems‚ and
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PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Assignment SEMESTER 2 2012/2013 PSCI 2523 INSTRUCTOR “ACCOUNTABILITY” | NAME | MATRIC NO. | SECTION | 1 | | 1 | | | | | INTRODUCTION. When the word Public Administration come accross one’s mind‚ people would think of government civil workers and bureaucracy in government office. However‚ Public Administration is wider than that. It comprises of many part among them are technical issues‚financal issues
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ARTICLE XI: ACCOUNTABILITY OF PUBLIC OFFICERS Section 1: PUBLIC OFFICE AS A PUBLIC TRUST Public officers and employees must at all times be accountable to the people‚ serve them with utmost responsibility‚ integrity‚ loyalty and efficiency‚ act with patriotism and justice and lead modest lives. Section 2: IMPEACHMENT/REMOVAL FROM OFFICE Impeachment: (as means of removal from office) 1. Who may be impeached: - President - VP - SC Justices - Constitutional Commission members - Ombudsman
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What is Performance Management? Accountability is the central concepts within which Performance management is situated. Armstrong (2000) defines performance management as a “strategic and integrated process that delivers sustained success to organisations by improving the performance of people who work in them and by developing the capabilities of individual contributors and teams.” (McAdam‚ 2005‚ p.257). Moullin (2002) and de Bruijn (2001) explain how the objectives of performance management
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Accountability and transparency in public procurement Police chief Hemant Karkare died with bullet proof jacket at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus on 26/11/2008 at 22:45 PM while attacking pakistani terrorists. Bullet Proof jacket was such low quality that does not work! From the above example‚ we can easily understood the Public procurement is how much transparent in our country. Moreover‚ It was not published in any newspaper that who is/are accountable for that Bullet Proof jacket(s). Nobody
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How has New Public management (NPM) affected the public services? To what extent has its impact been beneficial? The development of ‘new public management’ (hereafter NPM) over the past 20 years is one of the most striking international trends in public administration. It is important to mention that the rise of NPM is linked with other four megatrends in that period‚ namely: - Attempts to slow down government growth and spending (Dunsire and Hood 1989 cited in Hood 1991‚ p.3);
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