Authors:Patrick Bishop, Carmel Connors, C. J. G. Sampford,
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Keywords: ethics, law, governance, sector, public, organisation, management
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2003-10
List price: $140.00
ISBN-10: 0754622800
ISBN-13: 9780754622802

Since the 1980s, in Australia and other developed nations, public sector management philosophies and how the public sector is organized have changed dramatically. At the same time, there have been many demands, and several attempts, to preserve and promote ethical behaviour within the public sector - though few go much beyond the publication of a code. Both developments require an understanding of how public organizations operate in this new environment. Organizational and management theory are seen as providing important potential insights into the opportunities and pitfalls for building ethi

Authors:Charles Sampford, Arthur Shacklock, Carmel Connors, F
Publisher: Ashgate Pub Co
Keywords: governance, ethics, law, corruption, measuring
Number of Pages: 302
Published: 2006-03
List price: $130.00
ISBN-10: 0754624056
ISBN-13: 9780754624059

With the advance of an increasingly globalized market, the opportunities for, and scale of, corruption is growing. The size of corporations and their wealth relative to nations provides the resources for corrupt practices. The liberalization of international financial markets makes transferring and hiding the proceeds of corruption easier. Moves towards privatization in East and West are providing once-only incentives for corruption on an unprecedented scale, as officials not only deal with the income of the state, but with its assets as well. In this book, Transparency International’s (