Needs and Impacts on Socio Cultural Moral Values for Excellence in Public Services
NEEDS AND IMPACTS ON SOCIO CULTURAL MORAL VALUES FOR EXCELLENCE IN PUBLIC SERVICES
Introduction: Civil service ethics is more than the mere definition of actions complying or not complying with the law. The minimum criteria of civil service ethics are defined by legislation. Civil service ethics can be influenced in many other ways. Considering values and ethics as one of the corner stones of civil service ensures a high level of operations in State administration.
Public Service Ethics officially accepted standard of behaviour for government officials and employees. Such code may be embodied in a statute or in varied departmental regulations or in legislative resolutions. Ethics prescribe and proscribe certain behaviour under specified conditions designed to preserve and promote the accountability and integrity of public servants. The ethical standard of the civil servants is moulded by their social and historical tradition and the cultural environment. The ultimate standard of conduct for the public servants is the realisation of public interest as opposed to group or private interest.
The objective of this paper is to highlight moral crises arising out of its fast devaluation that has affected almost every section of the society including bureaucracy. Bangladeshi civil services sector has increasingly become dysfunctional, fragmented, poorly organized, and incapable of performing at a level acceptable to the public. In recent years, Bangladeshi civil service has become too much politicized which has contributed to the promotion of unethical practices in civil service. As a result, moral & ethical values in civil services are in the state of deterioration, causing services delivery to suffer. Genuine concerns of law-biding citizens are consistently ignored, rules and regulations are constantly by-passed, ethics and morality have become a thing of past. Civil servants and higher government officers were unable to create an
Introduction: Civil service ethics is more than the mere definition of actions complying or not complying with the law. The minimum criteria of civil service ethics are defined by legislation. Civil service ethics can be influenced in many other ways. Considering values and ethics as one of the corner stones of civil service ensures a high level of operations in State administration.
Public Service Ethics officially accepted standard of behaviour for government officials and employees. Such code may be embodied in a statute or in varied departmental regulations or in legislative resolutions. Ethics prescribe and proscribe certain behaviour under specified conditions designed to preserve and promote the accountability and integrity of public servants. The ethical standard of the civil servants is moulded by their social and historical tradition and the cultural environment. The ultimate standard of conduct for the public servants is the realisation of public interest as opposed to group or private interest.
The objective of this paper is to highlight moral crises arising out of its fast devaluation that has affected almost every section of the society including bureaucracy. Bangladeshi civil services sector has increasingly become dysfunctional, fragmented, poorly organized, and incapable of performing at a level acceptable to the public. In recent years, Bangladeshi civil service has become too much politicized which has contributed to the promotion of unethical practices in civil service. As a result, moral & ethical values in civil services are in the state of deterioration, causing services delivery to suffer. Genuine concerns of law-biding citizens are consistently ignored, rules and regulations are constantly by-passed, ethics and morality have become a thing of past. Civil servants and higher government officers were unable to create an