PAP 3340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Westminster System, Organizational Culture, Federal Accountability Act

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Public Administration
• Course: PAP 3340
• Professor: David Brown

Document Summary

November 24, 2016 issues in hrm: values and political activities. Values: enduring beliefs that influence our attitudes and actions. Public service values are rooted in societal values, shaped by public sector organizational culture and history. A number of values are associated with the canadian version of the westminster model: economy, efficiency, effectiveness, responsiveness, representativeness, fairness and equity, neutrality, accountability, anonymity, integrity, merit. Other values have been introduced under the influence of npm and recent management thinking: service, innovation, teamwork, quality, empowerment. Npm also sees values as an alternative to rules. Interval v. external regulation: also a reference point in addressing ethical dilemmas. Issue: how to encourage ethical behavior: ultimate tests are political, subject of partisan debate, unstable. Ethics is also linked to issues of integrity and corruption. A particular concern in many developing countries. Global monitoring by transparency international: annual corruption perception index. Canada 2015 index 9th globally: global corruption barometer, bribe payers index propensity of firms to pay bribes.