THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ETHICS, MOTIVATIONS OF PUBLIC EMPLOYEES, AND DECISION MAKING
The Relationship between Ethics and Motivation
It is known that the public administration is a bureaucracy which is the concept from Max Weber. Weber claimed that there is a connection between organizational structure and personality. He strongly believe that bureaucracy is the most efficient and powerful system. I quite agree with Winston Churchill 's statement. He said that
"We do not love bureaucracy, but we need it, at least until we devise workable alternative organizational schemes that permit us to retain the features of bureaucracy that we embrace eagerly – predictability and stability, rationality, reliance on expertise, equitable treatment – …show more content…
Before the managers make a decision, they need to gather the information. And then, the decision makers will decide by looking at the information that they have. There are many different approaches of decision making in bureaucracy. However, there are four main approaches that decision makers in public sector usually do; the rational approach, which seeks to maximize efficiency; the bargaining approach, which seeks to maximize the political support; the participate decision-making approach, which seeks to improve the decision by calling the populations that will be affected from the decision; the public choice approach, which presume that decision makers will maximize their utility (Kettle 2015: …show more content…
To study the theory of the ethics and public administration, an author will gather information from textbooks, journals and other published documents related to this issue. In addition, the author will do the survey research by questionnaire, to understand the public employees and bureaucrats perspectives. I will random choose from both central and local public organizations in Thailand.
The bureaucracy system in Thailand is changed from Position Classification system (C-system) to be the Bar system. Thus, the research samples are from all four categories: Executive Positions, Managerial Positions, Knowledge Worker Positions, and General Positions. There are two levels from Executive Positions and Managerial Positions: Primary Level and Higher Level. There are five levels form Knowledge Worker Positions: Practitioner Level, Professional Level, Senior Professional Level, Expert Level, and Advisory Level. General Positions have four levels: Operational Level; Experienced Level; Senior Level; and Expert
The Relationship between Ethics and Motivation
It is known that the public administration is a bureaucracy which is the concept from Max Weber. Weber claimed that there is a connection between organizational structure and personality. He strongly believe that bureaucracy is the most efficient and powerful system. I quite agree with Winston Churchill 's statement. He said that
"We do not love bureaucracy, but we need it, at least until we devise workable alternative organizational schemes that permit us to retain the features of bureaucracy that we embrace eagerly – predictability and stability, rationality, reliance on expertise, equitable treatment – …show more content…
Before the managers make a decision, they need to gather the information. And then, the decision makers will decide by looking at the information that they have. There are many different approaches of decision making in bureaucracy. However, there are four main approaches that decision makers in public sector usually do; the rational approach, which seeks to maximize efficiency; the bargaining approach, which seeks to maximize the political support; the participate decision-making approach, which seeks to improve the decision by calling the populations that will be affected from the decision; the public choice approach, which presume that decision makers will maximize their utility (Kettle 2015: …show more content…
To study the theory of the ethics and public administration, an author will gather information from textbooks, journals and other published documents related to this issue. In addition, the author will do the survey research by questionnaire, to understand the public employees and bureaucrats perspectives. I will random choose from both central and local public organizations in Thailand.
The bureaucracy system in Thailand is changed from Position Classification system (C-system) to be the Bar system. Thus, the research samples are from all four categories: Executive Positions, Managerial Positions, Knowledge Worker Positions, and General Positions. There are two levels from Executive Positions and Managerial Positions: Primary Level and Higher Level. There are five levels form Knowledge Worker Positions: Practitioner Level, Professional Level, Senior Professional Level, Expert Level, and Advisory Level. General Positions have four levels: Operational Level; Experienced Level; Senior Level; and Expert