Challenges of corruption
In our society, corruption and abuse of office has been aggravated by following factors:
- Due to colonial legacy of unchallenged authority and propensity to exercise power arbitrarily, public officials deviate from ethical conduct quite easily.
- Enormous asymmetry of power in our society, arising from almost 90% people in unorganized sector and merely 10% in organized sector, has reduced the societal pressure to conform to ethical behavior and made it easy for public servants to indulge in corruption.
- A set of policies whose unintended consequence was to put the citizens at the mercy of the State post-independence also created favourable climate for ....
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Ethics, Integrity & Aptitude
- 1 Philosophy and Contribution of Major Indian Thinkers and Leaders (The philosophies of these thinkers are used for quote-based answers and value-based analysis in the Ethics paper.)
- 2 Notable Quotes from Prominent Indian Thinkers and Leaders
- 3 Essence, Determinants, and Consequences of Ethics
- 4 Ethics in Human Actions & its Dimensions
- 5 Ethics in Private and Public Relationships
- 6 Human Values – Lessons from the Lives of Great Leaders, Reformers, and Administrators
- 7 Human Values
- 8 Philosophy and Contribution of Global Thinkers and Leaders
- 9 Moral Intuition vs. Moral Reasoning
- 10 Empathy, Tolerance, and Compassion towards Weaker Sections
