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Verwaltungsethik in der Praxis: "Harte" und "weiche" Gesichtspunkte
Public Service Ethics in Practice – "Hard" versus "Soft" Aspects
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Abstract "Institutional hard dimensions of public service ethics mainly focus on law, internal checks and instructions.
Individual hard aspects refer to obedience, whistle blowing and sometimes even to the exit strategies
of public servants. In contrast, soft issues address e. g. public private partnership... view more
"Institutional hard dimensions of public service ethics mainly focus on law, internal checks and instructions.
Individual hard aspects refer to obedience, whistle blowing and sometimes even to the exit strategies
of public servants. In contrast, soft issues address e. g. public private partnerships, organizational culture
and intrinsic motivation of public servants. The main argument is that hard and soft aspects are dependent
upon each other: Hard means require soft factors to avoid strictness and frustration of public servants.
And soft issues are dependent upon hard ones to gain stability, clarity and calculability." (author's abstract)... view less
Keywords
management; public administration; governance; organizational culture; Federal Republic of Germany; public sector; business ethics; dialectics; institutional factors; stakeholder approach; administrative practice
Classification
Administrative Science
Organizational Sociology
Document language
German
Publication Year
2008
Page/Pages
p. 244-262
Journal
Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensethik, 9 (2008) 2
ISSN
1439-880X
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
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