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100			_aOberoi, Roopinder
245			_aA comprehensive construct for ethical society and governance through an integrity framework
260			_c2013
300			_ap.672-686.
362			_aJul-Sep
520			_aRethinking the role of integrity implies consenting that something is immoral within the existing paradigm and metaphor of activities. This article sets out a number of practical mechanisms for setting and institutionalising standards of integrity and good governance for elected officials and civil servants. Ethics is a set of standards that a society places on itself and which helps guide behaviour, choices and actions. The prevailing negative view of the state of integrity can be ascribed to the levels of putrefying moral standards and broken relationship between state and civil society. Integrity is much more than financial honesty. Public office is a trust. But, we are congnisant to the fact that standards do not, by themselves, ensure ethical behaviour; that requires a robust culture of inegrity. Building trust and confidence requires an environment where there is a premium on transparency, openness, boldness, fairness and justice. The article also attempts to push the notions of integrity implementation and its assessment further, by taking "wholeness" of the concept of integrity to include not only the behaviour of officials and their organisations but also the internal climate of public institutios - their stated procedures, informal norms, incentive and accountability systems, monitoring processes, transparency mechanisms and to interactions with the wider society. Assessing integrity in public institutions requires that breadth of focus; a subject which will be delved into this article. - Reproduced.
650			_aPublic administration
773			_aIndian Journal of Public Administration
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909			_a101057
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