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  Impartiality and non-partisanship are indispensable qualities for a successful civil servant. These qualities are essential for maintaining the integrity, credibility, and effectiveness of civil service institutions. Here are a few reasons why: 1. Fairness and Objectivity: Impartiality ensures that civil servants treat all individuals and groups equally, without favoritism or bias. This fosters trust in the decision-making process and ensures fairness in the delivery of public services. 2. Upholding the Rule of Law: Non-partisanship is crucial for civil servants to uphold the rule of law and act in accordance with legal and constitutional principles, rather than being swayed by political influences. 3. Public Trust and Confidence: Impartiality and non-partisanship are key factors in building public trust and confidence in the civil service. When civil servants are perceived as unbiased and objective, it enhances the credibility of the institution and increases public trust in its...

An independent and empowered social audit mechanism is indeed crucial in every sphere of public service, including the judiciary, to ensure performance, accountability, and ethical conduct. Such a mechanism serves as a means of promoting transparency, citizen participation, and holding public officials accountable. Here are some key points elaborating on the importance of a social audit mechanism in the judiciary, along with examples: 1. Transparency and Public Confidence: A social audit mechanism in the judiciary helps foster transparency by allowing citizens to access information about the functioning of the judiciary and its decision-making processes. This transparency helps build public confidence in the judiciary, as people can see that the system is fair, unbiased, and accountable. For example, some countries have introduced online portals where citizens can track the progress of their cases, access court orders, and view the attendance records of judges. 2. Accountability and Ch...

  Identify five ethical traits on which one can plot the performance of a civil servant. Justify their inclusion in the matrix. (Answer in 150 words)10M? I ntroduction : Civil servants play major role in administrating the governance .They are subjective to ethical conduct in performing the duties .For smooth going of administrative  services  ,civil servants follow ethical values like Accountability ,Transparency ,Compassion ,objectivity ,empathy ,Integrity . Major ethical traits of civil servants are: Integrity :  public Servants should not place themselves under any financial or other obligation to outside individuals or organizations that might seek to influence them in the performance of their official duties. Reasons for inclusion Ethical trait  1  To serve public interest, 2.Efficient utilization of resources 3.Elimanitation of Corruption . 2.Responsibility and accountability: An administrator would not hesitate to accept responsibility for his dec...

 There have been different philosophers during different time phases who have given different theories on ethics and values which explain the nature of such judgments in general, provide criteria for determining what is ethically right or wrong, and analyze the grounds or reasons 1. Socrates who observed that “the unexamined life is not worth living,” Socrates asserted that people will naturally do what is good provided they know what is right, and that evil or bad actions are purely the result of ignorance: “ There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance”He equated knowledge and wisdom with self-awareness (meaning to be aware of every fact relevant to a person’s existence) and virtue and happiness.  So, in essence, he considered self-knowledge and self-awareness to be the essential good, because the truly wise (i.e. self-aware) person will know what is right, do what is good, and therefore be happy. He thought that virtue is something that can be known and that t...

Introduction : Globalization emerged as an aspiration for integrating world into a global village, and subsequently transformed the economic, political and cultural dimensions of the world. The Covid-19 pandemic exposed the vulnerabilities of a globalized world. Pandemic compelled countries to impose restrictions on international travel, foreign investment, export of medical supplies and disrupted the global supply chain. It led to a new wave of protectionism, self-reliance and nationalism.  Globalization is the spread of products, technology, information, and jobs across national borders and cultures. Economic globalization includes flows of goods and services across borders, international capital flows, reduction in tariffs and trade barriers, immigration, and the spread of technology, and knowledge beyond borders. Since its emergence, many studies found the positive effect of globalization on growth through effective allocation of domestic resources, diffusion of technology, imp...

Ethics  The Oxford English Dictionary defines ethics as the science of morals or moral principles. The study of ethics is concerned with the moral principles that determine what is right or wrong conduct.  However, determining what is right or wrong behaviour is not an easy task as the criterion for the same are neither absolute nor universal, but variable, depending on the person, place, and time. Traditionally, ethics has undertaken to analyze, evaluate, and develop normative moral criteria for dealing with moral problems. Ethics represents an attempt to systematize and rationalize morality, typically into generalized normative rules that is supposedly a solution to situations of moral uncertainty why  Individual Ethics needed? Ethics, as a set of principles, give a r ational justification for behavio ur.  They define individual and group priorities, and in the end, they may arrive at a systematic body of moral norms, as individual and group practices get interwove...

 

 Ethics could be said to be “MORAL PRINCIPLES” and Values , that governs the behaviours of a person or a Group, with respect to what is right or wrong ?Ethics sets standards , as to what is GOOD or BAD in CONDUCT and DECISION MAKING. Ethics, to be a prescribed and commonly shared ‘values and standards , relating to’:-  • Trustworthiness-(in the form of) honesty, integrity, reliability and loyalty;  • Responsibility-( in the form of ) Accountability, pursuit of excellence, and self Restraint;  • Fairness(in the form of )- open and un-biased process, impartiality and equity ;  • Respect(in the form of )-civility, courtesy, decency , tolerance and compassion ; and  • Rules of Conduct- especially those regarding financial gains, use of public –resources, Transparency, accountability and fair process. What is ethical dilemma? An ETHICAL DILEMMA is a complex situation, that often involves an apparent conflict between moral imperatives, in which to obey one would ...

 salient aspects of ethics in public administration. Broadly, they could be summarised as following maxims: Maxim of Legality and Rationality: An administrator will follow the law and rules that are framed to govern and guide various categories of policies and decisions Maxim of Responsibility and Accountability : An administrator would not hesitate to accept responsibility for his decision and actions. He would hold himself morally responsible for his actions and for the use of his discretion while making decisions. Moreover, he would be willing to be held accountable to higher authorities of governance and even to the people who are the ultimate beneficiaries of his decisions and actions M axim of Work Commitment: An a dministrator would be committed to his duties and perform his work with involvement, intelligence and dexterity. As Swami Vivekananda observed: “Every duty is holy and devotion to duty is the highest form of worship.” This would also entail a respect for time, punc...