Of the many aspects of public administration, the ethical aspect is perhaps the most important but the least codified. While administrative rules and procedures have been codified in various public documents and manuals. There is no manual for the ethics of public servants. While organisational behaviour analyses the factors which influence the behaviour of individuals in an organisation, ethics refer to the norms and standards which behaviour of the people in an organisation must conform to. While behaviour analysis deals with factual aspects, ethics relates to the normative aspects of administration. The normative aspects are of the greatest significance. Just as for an individual if character is lost, everything is lost, so also for an administration if the ethics is lost, everything is lost. Neither efficiency nor loyalty could be substitute for high ethical standards. In India, though there is no ethical code for public administrators, there is what's called, the Government Servants' Conduct Rules. These rules lay down what constitutes misconduct for the public servants. It is apparently implied that such misconduct, which is not permitted, is also unethical conduct.
Questions: Q. 1) As per the passage, organisational behaviour is;
a) same as ethics in organisations
b) different from ethics in organisations
c) human behaviour in organisations including ethics
d) None of these
Q. 2) Ethics is to an administrator, what character is for;
a) an administrator
b) an official
c) an individual
d) None of these
Q. 3) Government Servant's Conduct Rules are meant for;
a) guiding the ethical conduct of government servants
b) guiding what constitutes misconduct for public
c) guiding what constitutes misconduct for government servants
d) None of these
Q. 4) The word manual in the context of the passage means;
a) hand operated
b) physical
c) guide book
d) None of these
