Normative aspect of public administration ethics
Keywords:
codes of ethics, normative systems, ethical requirements, employees, citiesAbstract
Managing of ethics is an essential part of public administration in democratic countries. Normative aspects of ethics is often considered as a necessary basis of public administration ethics. The main aim of this study is to identify the importanceof ethical norms for employees in the conditions of Slovak cities.The article is trying to answer following research question: What is the importance of ethical norms for employees in the conditions of Slovak Republic cities? Besides that, the core part of study concentrates its attention on analysis of selected group of ethical norms for employees, and thus stirring up a pressure to find some recommendations in the context of contemporary inconsistencies. Moreover, the articleexamines, with the help of deductive and inductive method, the potential of qualitative improvement of normative aspect of public administration ethics. Findings suggest that normative aspects of public administration ethicsshould be perceived as an important factor of employees’ regulation. At the same time, normative aspect of ethics should be perceived as fundamental basis for other aspects of public administration ethics, which quality is based on other aspects of public administration ethics. Besides that, practical implications should be identified in the context of achieving higher ethical standards in public administration organizations. Finally, various limits and perspectives of examined issues are discussed in the final part of the article.
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