Ethics and Integrity: Moral Attitude

Attitudes are both positive and negative evaluations that predict behavioural dispositions. People usually develop strong beliefs about their attitudes. Such strong beliefs are more predictive about the behaviours. Moral Attitudes All attitudes which have their base in moral conviction are ..

Ethics and Integrity: Political Attitudes

Political attitudes define the attitude of a person towards politicians, political parties or political ideologies. The political attitude may be different of an apolitical person from political person. Political Attitude is the way of thinking in terms of political gains ..

Ethics and Integrity: Social Influence and Persuasion

Persuasion is symbolic process in which communicators try to convince other people through transmission of a message to change their attitudes or behaviours.  Thus, Persuasion is one form of social influence on attitude; in fact it represents the intersection of ..

Difference between Attitude and Aptitude

An aptitude is a component of a competency to do a certain kind of work at a certain level, which can also be considered “talent”. Aptitudes may be physical or mental. Aptitude is not knowledge, understanding, learned or acquired abilities ..

Principles for Managing Ethics in the Public Service

Public service is a public trust. Citizens expect public servants to serve the public interest with fairness and to manage public resources properly. Following cases of corruption and misuse of office all over the world, most advanced countries have prescribed ..

Ethics in Private and Public Relationships

Each individual plays various roles in society. The role played by them defines the relations with others. Every day, we play different roles {father, mother, son, daughter, brother, sister, husband, wife, teacher, student, doctor, leader, businessman, fried, foe, worker, employer, ..

Determinants Of Ethical Behaviour

There are few influences that determine whether behaviour and decisions are ethical or unethical. Legal Interpretations The need to control, legislate and regulate, the ethical conduct at the government, individual, and corporate levels has its roots back to the ancient ..

Tests to Determine Ethical Decisions

On the basis of various ancient and modern philosophies, various tests to determine the ethical decisions have been proposed such as smell test, utility test, rights test, exceptions test, choices test, justice test, common good test, character or virtue test ..

Probity in Governance

Probity (Satyanishtha in Hindi) literally means a complete and confirmed integrity; having strong moral principles. Every day, we hear and talk about probity in public life. We expect our political leaders and bureaucrats to be transparent in their dealings. Their ..

Key Hindrances to Good Governance

Good governance means an accountable and audited public service which has the bureaucratic competence to implement appropriate public policies and an independent judicial system to uphold the law. Despite the continuing efforts to enhance the quality of governance in the ..