Nitelikli Kamu Görevlisi Yetiştirme: Ahlak Eksenli Bir Değerlendirme(Training Competent Public Officials: An Ethics-Oriented Evaluation)

Abstract

Public administration, as one of the primary means of the state, is a highly important structure established to meet common needs of citizens. Having a direct impact on people’s life with the services it provides, public administration requires many elements to perform duties expected of it. Public officials constitute a vital part of public administration. They represent human factor in public administration. Accomplishment gained though human factor affects the success of public administration directly, because human factor has a significant place due to its ability to render all the other factors in public administration productive or unproductive in the administrative process. Ethics is essential for success through human factor; because ethics is the primary basic value that is agreed on to create a qualified individual profile in all historical periods. Ethics aims for humans to achieve individual competence on the basis of good and right, and to build a perfect society ultimately. This aim of ethics is also key to raising qualified public officials in public administration. In view of such information, this study first explains the concepts of ‘ethics’, ‘public administration and ‘public official’. The study then attempts to indicate the important role of ethics in training competent public officials.

Keywords

• ethics
• public official
• public administration