Blending Formal Rules with Value Based Approaches toward Building Ethical Culture in Tanzania

Lameck, Wilfred Uronu

doi:10.9734/jsrr/2017/34649

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“…Ethics infrastructure entails the combination of different rules, regulations and policies which are developed to regulate the ethical conduct of public officials (Amundsen, 2009;Lameck, 2017;Ngumbi, 2019). According to Parker et al (2008) the concept of ethics infrastructure was initially introduced in the United States to denote policies and structures that upkeep compliance with professional conduct (Parker et al, 2008).…”

Section: Ethical Infrastructurementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Ethics infrastructure is also called ethics regime or integrity (Stare & Klun, 2016). These rules, regulations and policies guide public officials to abstain from unethical conduct through directive and description of what is permitted or not permitted (Lameck, 2017). , 1977;Tenga, 2010;URT, 2016).…”

Section: Ethical Infrastructurementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The negative social rule embedded in public service has not been removed. The public servants still believe that public service is for the benefit of the government and that public servants and the entire believes that public servants should use their office well by using public office for private gain (Lameck, 2017). Overall, noncompliance with the ethics code can further be explained by the existing social rules.…”

Section: Historical Phenomenonmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Overall, noncompliance with the ethics code can further be explained by the existing social rules. For example, some authors argue that poor implementation of ethics infrastructure is attributed to negative social rules which escalate the growing trend of unethical behaviour and corruption in the public services (Lameck, 2017).…”

Section: Historical Phenomenonmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Compliance of Ethics Infrastructure for Public Officials' Assets Declaration in Tanzania

Wilfred Lameck Uronu,

Peter Teleli Andrea

2023

IJGPPA

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‘Ethical infrastructure’ is considered as one of the tools for ensuring that public officials declare their assets and comply with ethical standards in different countries across the globe. This is even more important in developing countries where corruption is perceived to be a major threat to development. Despite this recognition, most countries especially in the developing world suffer from ineffective assets declaration by public officials and a lack of compliance to ethical standards. A similar situation is repored in Tanzania where lack of compliance with ethical standards and assets declaration has been the order of the day despite the establishment of ethics infrastructure. This article examines existing ethics infrastructure in the public service and establishes the reason for the noncompliance of public officials to the existing ethics infrastructure in assets declaration. This paper, is a desk review of concept, theory and empirics of assets declaration and assets infrastructure across the globe and Tanzania in particular and the review includes the analysis of rules, regulations and guidelines which constitutes ethics infrastructure and govern assets declaration in Tanzania. The findings of the review indicate that ethics infrastructure is a foundation for assets declaration but the actual implementation depends on the government's will and the strength of the enforcement mechanism. The government needs to increase the autonomy and resources for enforcing authority and transparency in assets declaration and provide ethical training to public officials. Keywords: Assets declaration, Ethical standards, Public service, Tanzania, Ethics infrastructure

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Section: Ethical Infrastructurementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Ethical Infrastructurementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Historical Phenomenonmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Historical Phenomenonmentioning

confidence: 99%

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