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100			_aGarcia-Zamor, Jean-Claude
245			_aEthics revisited in a society in transition: the case of the former East Germany
260			_c2002
300			_ap.235-48.
362			_aAug
520			_aSince 1990, the German government has been demanding from the civil servants of the former East Germany a new adaptability and creativity that was never promoted in the GDR bureaucracy. The article analyses the change of ethics in the former East Germany after 1990. It looks at the development of the German civil service, discusses the economic disparity between East and West, and examines the ethical tradition in the former socialist country. it uses the case of the selection in 2001 of the city of Leipzig by BMW as the location of a new manufacturing plant as an illustration of the new goal-oriented activities of the present Eastern bureaucracy. More than 250 European cities were competing for the new plant, which will create over 10,000 jobs. The level of performance of the Leipzig bureaucracy in the BMW case reveals the new efficiency and professionalism of the former Eastern civil service. In addition to Leipzig, virtually all the local and state administrations from the former East Germany have developed a sense of the necessities of the time, including globalization. - Reproduced.
650			_aEthics
650			_aCivil service ethics
650			_aCivil service
773			_aPublic Administration and Development
909			_a53906
999			_c53906 _d53906