Conceptual perspectives on factors and considerations for enhancing ethical governance in Public Administration

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.