Integrity Violations and Corruption in Western Public Governance: Empirical Evidence and Reflection from the Netherlands

Graaf, Gjalt de; Huberts, L.W.J.C.; Strüwer, Tebbine

doi:10.1080/10999922.2017.1350796

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“…The concept was first introduced in 1998 in a study involving observation of public sector employees (Huberts, 1998). Many studies have followed suit engaging various parties and observing the various effects of integrity violations on organizations and employees (Graaf, 2010;Graaf, Huberts, & Strüwer, 2017;Huberts, Kaptein, & Lasthuizen, 2007;Huberts & Lasthuizen, 2014;Lasthuizen, Huberts, & Heres, 2011). Initially, there were nine types of integrity violation covering the areas of fraud, corruption, receiving gifts, side activities, misuse of information, discrimination, misuse of power, abuse of resources and crime (Huberts, 1998).…”

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“…Weak integrity violations are acts of deviant behaviors such as falsely reporting in sick or procrastinating towards assigned duties (Grund & Fries, 2018;Wessel, Bradley, & Hood, 2019). Mild integrity violations focus on things such as conducting side activities within the organization (for example, conducting errands for groceries or paying the bills during official working hours) (Graaf et. al., 2017;Kolthoff, Huberts, & Heuvel, 2007).…”

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“…al., 2017;Kolthoff, Huberts, & Heuvel, 2007). Strong integrity violations are related to fraud and corruption (Graaf et. al., 2017).…”

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Public Sector Integrity Violations

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Objective - Integrity violations can result in small or large financial losses for a community or organisation. These economic losses can be the result of small actions, such as laziness or no determination of work ethics, or large losses, such as corruption practices that can cause an organisation to lose large amounts of money and suffer damage to their reputation. The study will assess the levels of public sector integrity violations among Malaysian government employees. Methodology/Technique – Previous studies have shown that serious integrity violations, such as fraud, result in major economic loss to a country. This paper explores the perceptions of 616 Malaysian government civil servants who were surveyed regarding matters of integrity violations in their working environment. Surveys were distributed using mail and online distribution formats. The level of integrity violations within the respondent’s organisations were evaluated as weak, mild or strong. Finding - The results indicate that employees in Malaysia are focused on their personal and family relationships despite the fact that this is considered as integrity violations within their organisation. Novelty - This research provides an overview of the current stage of Malaysian integrity violations and demonstrates the need for improvement in this area. The research also provides valuable insight to managers to improve their control over the organisation. Type of Paper: Empirical

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Public Sector Integrity Violations

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2019

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“…In his inaugural address Leo Huberts (1998) highlighted what he called 'blind spots' in police practice and police science and laid the basis for a program about, among other things, the organisation and policy of the Dutch police (Huberts, Verberk, Lasthuizen, & van den Heuvel, 2004), the rise of private security (van Steden & Huberts, 2005) and, indeed, the ethics and integrity of police work (Huberts, Kaptein, & Lasthuizen, 2007). Over the years that followed, his work has specifically evolved in the direction of what can be described as public ethics research or, more precisely, research into public integrity ( de Graaf, Huberts, & Str€ uwer, 2018;Huberts, Anechiarico, & Six, 2008;Huberts & Huberts, 2014) and public values ( de Graaf, Huberts, & Smulders, 2016;van der Wal & Huberts, 2008;Huberts & van der Wal, 2014). Huberts has been widely praised for his important and inspiring contributions to this body of knowledge, and rightly so given the publications referred to in the beginning of this section that represent only a small part of his voluminous oeuvre.…”

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Blind Spots in Public Ethics and Integrity Research: What Public Administration Scholars Can Learn from Aristotle

Steden

2020

Public Integrity

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The discourse on 'good governance' is of growing importance in the public integrity and public values literature. However, it is not so simple to discern what 'good governance' actually means. This paper delves into the work of the ancient philosopher Aristotle who has influenced a stream of practice theories underlining the significance of virtues (instead of values) and of 'doing things well'. It specifically explores the relevance of Aristotelian philosophy for public professionals by emphasising the central virtue of practical wisdom (phr onêsis or prudence) that sustains craftsmanship as an action-oriented means to achieving viable results. Public integrity, defined as an overarching virtue of a practical sort, contains strong parallels with this Aristotelian phr onêsis which aims to achieve excellence in professional practiceseven to the point of being modest if necessaryand assures continuous reflection on public professionals' quality of work. In other words: public professionals must be persons of integrityof moral wholeness and soundnesswho are virtious in aligning their judgements with a vision of the good life from which society and citizens can flourish.

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“…These violations would often cause adverse effects within the organisation itself. The common effect includes the loss of revenue or productivity towards the organisation when the person commits integrity violations such as procrastinating their work (Graaf et al, 2017) The organisations are susceptible to losses when there are substantial integrity violations such as fraud and corruption taking place. Governments such as in the United Kingdom suffer losses of up to billions of dollars due to these actions of fraud and corruption (Button, 2016).…”

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Examining the Link between Ethical Culture and Integrity Violations: The Mediating Role of Integrity Climate

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Arshad

2019

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Integrity violations are actions that can cause harm to the economy and society at large. These violations would cost the organisation losses or devalue their reputation. Many initiatives were taken to mitigate integrity violations at the organisation level. Creating a positive ethical culture was argued as a crucial approach to minimise the incident of integrity violations. However, to date, little research was done to provide empirical support on whether ethical culture contributes significant effect to integrity violation. This paper aims to investigate whether ethical culture can impact integrity violations. Data were collected using questionnaires distributed to 459 state government departments. There are a total of 343 out of 459 (75%) questionnaires distributed to Malaysian state government departments were received. The findings indicate that integrity climate mediates the relationship between ethical culture and integrity violations. The practicality of the research provides a further understanding of public sector organisations and their behaviours. The viewpoint of whether having ethical culture as a social norm in an organisation provides insight towards the occurrence of integrity violations.

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Integrity Violations and Corruption in Western Public Governance: Empirical Evidence and Reflection from the Netherlands

Cited by 39 publications

References 31 publications

Public Sector Integrity Violations

Public Sector Integrity Violations

Blind Spots in Public Ethics and Integrity Research: What Public Administration Scholars Can Learn from Aristotle

Examining the Link between Ethical Culture and Integrity Violations: The Mediating Role of Integrity Climate

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