This paper is written as part of the project «Norwegian Central Government Administration in a 30 Years Perspective», funded by the Meltzer Foundation. The paper was presented at Workshop 4 – Ethics and Effectiveness in Performance Measurement, «Governing good and governing well» -The first global dialogue on ethical and effective governance, Amsterdam, May 28–30, 2009.Ethics in public organizations have received more attention in recent decades, partly as a result of waves of public reforms. In this paper we first define ethics in public organizations taking a broad approach based on ethical theory and organization theory. We then focus more specifically on ethical guidelines in the central civil service in Norway, ask how important they a...
In this paper we describe the changes that have taken place in the Norwegian civil service over the ...
It has become common over the last 25 years to formulate general ethical standards for management of...
The paper focuses on civil service organizations in Norway – of particular relevance is central orga...
Ethics in public organizations have received more attention in recent decades, partly as a result of...
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Public ethos consists of economic and democratic values that need to take up as much space in the pu...
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Evaluation of how morality and ethics are represented in the discourse about the reform of human res...
It is a known fact that ethical conduct and ethical behavior of public servants at all hierarchical ...
Previous research on public ethics has mainly focused on how civil servants should act. Until now, e...
An important interest in public-administration ethics has been expressed in OECD member states since...
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the measures put in place by the largest pub...
This article shows how institutionalism, a theory in organisational social science, provides a model...
Recent years have witnessed an increasing concern about the impact of New Public Management (NPM) re...
The implementation of “new public management” as well as of more recent reforms such as those associ...
In this paper we describe the changes that have taken place in the Norwegian civil service over the ...
It has become common over the last 25 years to formulate general ethical standards for management of...
The paper focuses on civil service organizations in Norway – of particular relevance is central orga...
Ethics in public organizations have received more attention in recent decades, partly as a result of...
In this paper we ask what happens to NPM and post-NPM reform elements when they encounter the realit...
Public ethos consists of economic and democratic values that need to take up as much space in the pu...
This paper examines whether the OECD regulatory model corresponds with regulatory practice in Norway...
Evaluation of how morality and ethics are represented in the discourse about the reform of human res...
It is a known fact that ethical conduct and ethical behavior of public servants at all hierarchical ...
Previous research on public ethics has mainly focused on how civil servants should act. Until now, e...
An important interest in public-administration ethics has been expressed in OECD member states since...
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the measures put in place by the largest pub...
This article shows how institutionalism, a theory in organisational social science, provides a model...
Recent years have witnessed an increasing concern about the impact of New Public Management (NPM) re...
The implementation of “new public management” as well as of more recent reforms such as those associ...
In this paper we describe the changes that have taken place in the Norwegian civil service over the ...
It has become common over the last 25 years to formulate general ethical standards for management of...
The paper focuses on civil service organizations in Norway – of particular relevance is central orga...