The Institutionalization of Ethics and the Role of Human Resources in Ethical Behavior in the Public Sector

Abstract

In order to identify the ethical peculiarities of human resources management in the public administration, we studied the specialized literature, as well as documents published by international and European bodies. The research method used is qualitative, the techniques used are information gathering, analysis, interpretation, synthesis, induction and deduction. The research aimed to explore ethical practices in business, how human resources can contribute to increasing ethics as a whole at the level of a company or a public institution. With the help of the questionnaire, I was able to analyze structured data resulting from the information obtained from the people employed in the central public administration. The result of the study is the following: at the level of the central public organization, the institutionalization of ethics is in an open transition process aimed at both the individual and the organizational level.

Keywords

• management
• code of ethics
• institutionalization of ethics
• ethical evaluation questionnaire