Abstract
This article studies two Swedish organizations with key roles in the facilitation and promotion of ethics management vis-à-vis other public-sector organizations. The study offers insights into how organizations combine and prioritize ethics management measures, involve submanagement employees, and consider external stakeholders, in contexts of democratic governance and public concern about corruption. Our findings suggest that these types of bird’s-eye view organizations studied are important as they are in a position less prone to ad hoc scandal-driven responses. They can thus promote strategies that consider a combination of aspects and avoid a narrow rules-based focus.
Highlights
This article studies two Swedish organizations with key roles in the facilitation and promotion of ethics management vis-à-vis other public-sector organizations
Research on organizational ethics has emphasized that effective ethics management strategies need to combine measures to ensure compliance with existing rules with measures that aim to encourage the development of appropriate ethical values among staff
The type of ethics management strategies promoted by the two organizations is explored and we investigate three research questions to cover the use of rules and values instruments, submanagement employee involvement, and how external stakeholders are considered
Summary
This article studies two Swedish organizations with key roles in the facilitation and promotion of ethics management vis-à-vis other public-sector organizations. Our first hypothesis (Hypothesis 1) is that both organizations promote strategies in state and local government, respectively, that combine rules- and values-based instruments.
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