Administrative

Ethics and
Professionalism
Administrative Ethics

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 Administrative Ethics

◍ Administrative ethics refers to well-based

standards of right and wrong that prescribe
what public administrators ought to do in
terms of duty to public service, principles,
virtues, and benefits to society.

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 Ethics

◍ Ethics refers to the standards of right and wrong behaviour that are
voluntarily accepted by persons who choose to be part of a professional
group, including the profession of public administration. When one
accepts membership in a profession or accepts a public service position,
the ethical standards become binding.

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 Administrative ethics
◍ denotes the professional code of morality in civil service.
They constitute the moral fiber of civil servants. They
regulate the conduct and behaviour of different categories of
civil servants.
 Elements or Components of Administrative
Ethics

• Integrity • Devotion to the duty

• Loyalty to Nation • Sense of public good
• Honesty • Neutrality
• Efficiency • Impartiality/Fairness
• Non-partisan Attitude • Sincerity
• Humbleness
• Uncorrupt

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 Importance

1. To promote the sense 3. To cultivate high 6. To improve the efficiency

of administrative standards of conduct among and effectiveness and
responsibility civil servants administrative process
2. To establish and 4. To preserve and promote 7. To strengthen the
promote the correct social welfare, public legitimacy and credibility
relations between the interest and common good of public administration
citizen and the civil 5. To control that part of 8. To stabilize and harmonize
service administrative power and the relation between the
discretion which cannot be civil servants and the
controlled by formal laws, political executives
methods and procedures
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“it is of utmost importance that the public administration
should be efficient but it is even more important that it should
be ethical. It is said of an individual that if character is lost,
everything is lost. It could be stated about public
administration, that if ethics is lost, everything is lost.”
P.R. Dubhashi
Thank you!

Report by: Perez, Kirby P.

Group 5