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Ethics measures are the programs and policies put in place intended to improve and protect the ethical environment in a public institution or agency.
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Creating a positive ethical environment in public institutions and agencies involves a host of complicated factors. Among them are ethical leadership and management, institutional focus on ethical values, robust and enforced ethical dimensions to hiring and advancement decisions, institutional and agency response patterns to reports of ethical violations, and a host of other interpersonal and institutional factors often difficult to define. However, specific measures enacted to achieve this goal in public agencies have primarily been comprised of two categories: ethics codes and ethics training. These can come along with some less widespread measures such as reporting hotlines, ethics audits,...
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Siewert, W. (2016). Ethics Measures. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_2758-1
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