Ethics in Public Administration: Evidence from Slovenia
<p>The main purpose of this paper is to examine how employees’ personal ethics, expressed through their personal values and attitudes toward social and environmental issues, are associated with the ethics of organizations in public administration. The authors introduce their own theoretical mo...
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Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca
2013-12-01
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| description | <p>The main purpose of this paper is to examine how employees’ personal ethics, expressed through their personal values and attitudes toward social and environmental issues, are associated with the ethics of organizations in public administration. The authors introduce their own theoretical model that examines the relations between employees’ personal ethics – expressed through employees’ personal values and attitudes toward natural and social environments – and the ethics of public administration. The reported study examined these relations and tested a proposed model based on the answers of 212 employees from public administration organizations in Slovenia. Employees’ attitudes toward natural and social environments and the ethics of their organizations were measured using a questionnaire designed to measure aspects of ethics whereas personal values were measured using the Schwartz value survey. The results demonstrated that employees’ self-enhancing values significantly influence their attitudes toward the natural environment. Employees’ self-transcendence and self-enhancement values significantly influence their attitudes toward the social environment and the ethics of organizations. In addition, research results about the mediation effect of employees’ attitudes toward natural and social environments on the association between the employees’ personal values and their perception of the ethics of public administration organizations reveals that employees’ social attitudes have a significant impact on the ethics of public administration while the impact of self-transcending and self-enhancing values becomes insignificant. Based on results of testing our model we can conclude that the employee’s attitudes toward to the social environment represent a significantly more powerful predictor of ethics in public administration organizations than the employees’ personal values. These results present a solid basis for further theoretical and practical advancement of public administration ethics.</p> |
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| spelling | doaj.art-abcc1253b4264c189cbf98ba7521283a2024-03-14T07:28:35ZengBabes-Bolyai University, Cluj-NapocaTransylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences1842-28452013-12-019SI88108416Ethics in Public Administration: Evidence from SloveniaZlatko NEDELKO0Vojko POTOCAN1Assistant Professor, Department of Organization and Informatics, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Maribor, Maribor, SloveniaProfessor, Department of Organization and Informatics, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia<p>The main purpose of this paper is to examine how employees’ personal ethics, expressed through their personal values and attitudes toward social and environmental issues, are associated with the ethics of organizations in public administration. The authors introduce their own theoretical model that examines the relations between employees’ personal ethics – expressed through employees’ personal values and attitudes toward natural and social environments – and the ethics of public administration. The reported study examined these relations and tested a proposed model based on the answers of 212 employees from public administration organizations in Slovenia. Employees’ attitudes toward natural and social environments and the ethics of their organizations were measured using a questionnaire designed to measure aspects of ethics whereas personal values were measured using the Schwartz value survey. The results demonstrated that employees’ self-enhancing values significantly influence their attitudes toward the natural environment. Employees’ self-transcendence and self-enhancement values significantly influence their attitudes toward the social environment and the ethics of organizations. In addition, research results about the mediation effect of employees’ attitudes toward natural and social environments on the association between the employees’ personal values and their perception of the ethics of public administration organizations reveals that employees’ social attitudes have a significant impact on the ethics of public administration while the impact of self-transcending and self-enhancing values becomes insignificant. Based on results of testing our model we can conclude that the employee’s attitudes toward to the social environment represent a significantly more powerful predictor of ethics in public administration organizations than the employees’ personal values. These results present a solid basis for further theoretical and practical advancement of public administration ethics.</p>https://rtsa.ro/tras/index.php/tras/article/view/400attitudesethicsnatural environmentpublic administrationsloveniasocial environmentvalues. |
| spellingShingle | Zlatko NEDELKO Vojko POTOCAN Ethics in Public Administration: Evidence from Slovenia Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences attitudes ethics natural environment public administration slovenia social environment values. |
| title | Ethics in Public Administration: Evidence from Slovenia |
| title_full | Ethics in Public Administration: Evidence from Slovenia |
| title_fullStr | Ethics in Public Administration: Evidence from Slovenia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Ethics in Public Administration: Evidence from Slovenia |
| title_short | Ethics in Public Administration: Evidence from Slovenia |
| title_sort | ethics in public administration evidence from slovenia |
| topic | attitudes ethics natural environment public administration slovenia social environment values. |
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