Abstract:
Throughout the world, establishing and promoting a proper foundation for ethical
governance in public administration has become in itself, a daunting challenge,
given the constantly changing internal and external environments impacting on
public administration. The goodness of ethical governance in public administration
can be enhanced through conceptual perspectives on factors and considerations–
such as values as ethical anchors; ethical organisational culture; ethical foundations
of decision making; ethics in leadership; and responses to ethical issues. These
conceptual perspectives can contribute to discovering and identifying what is in
the public interest; perpetuating assured and consistent individual and collective
behaviour by aligning own values to those underpinning ethical governance in
public administration; making judgments and assessments which can be articulated
and justified in any institutional or public forum, through deep self-reflection,
engagement and dialogue; and realising and understanding that individual and
collective behaviour in day-to-day practice may have their roots or origins in some
ethical dispute, ethical question or tension.
