Do Codes of Conduct and Ethical Leadership Influence Public Employees' Attitudes and Behaviours? An experimental analysis

Corruption, political scandals, and the spreading adoption of management practices in the public sector contribute to a decline in public trust. Worldwide initiatives promoting good governance can be observed. At an organizational level, management of ethics has gained in importance as codes of cond...

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Published inPublic management review Vol. 18; no. 9; pp. 1365 - 1399
Main Authors Thaler, Julia, Helmig, Bernd
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Abingdon Routledge 20.10.2016
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects
Attitudes
Bureaucracy
Chief executive officers
Civil service
Code of conduct
Codes
Codes of conduct
Corruption
Employee attitude
Employees
ethical leadership
Ethics
experiment
Governance
Leadership
Professional standards
Public administration
Public sector
Scandals
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Summary:Corruption, political scandals, and the spreading adoption of management practices in the public sector contribute to a decline in public trust. Worldwide initiatives promoting good governance can be observed. At an organizational level, management of ethics has gained in importance as codes of conduct and ethical leadership are promoted. However, public management research has hardly analysed the impacts of these measures. To address this research gap, we conduct a between-subjects experiment among public administration employees. Our results reveal that only ethical leadership has a positive effect on employees' organization-related attitudes. Our findings suggest avenues for further research.
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ISSN:1471-9037
1471-9045
DOI:10.1080/14719037.2015.1103890