Percepção de aspectos éticos no serviço público: um estudo descritivo sob a ótica dos servidores públicos do Município de Lavras - MG

Abstract

The ethics discussion in organizations are no longer seen as fashionable, despite the requirements set by society who demands an ethics stance from organizations that now focus more on profits than focus on the citizen’s well being. With regards to public organizations, society has certain expectations that available services are being delivered with efficiency and that the public officers are acting in compliance with the public interest, that public resources are being managed in an appropriate form according to the end. What is expected is a Public Office ethics stance. One of the most current approaches in normative ethics, is virtue ethics. It can be defined as one that emphasizes the virtues or the moral character in contrast of which one the emphasizes duty or rules or that emphasizes actions or consequences. In this perspective, analyzing it in Lavra´s municipality public administration arises the follows questions: how does the code of ethics influence, as the code of ethics, the elements inherent in personal ethics and others and work ethics are perceived by the Lavras’ municipal public officials? How the public officials perceive the ethical duties influencing their daily activities? Seeking answers to this and others questions that arose from it, this research focuses on the ethical and moral duties perceived by the Lavras municipality public officials and what guides their behaviors. This study is classified into the quantitative-descriptive exploratory category and is used as a tool to structure questionnaires that measure the officials’ perception behind the scale of five points likert. This has adopted a census of procedure to mapping the data and has utilized SurveyMonkey software to collect them. The research results showed that the officials have an interest in learning about ethics in the public services; regarding the question about personal ethics, they perceive themselves with an appropriate behavior in public service execution; however they perceives their coworkers, who could act more ethically. With regards to ethics in the workplace they showed that their ethical behavior were consistent with ethical and moral but sometimes they showed conflicts between their personal interests and the public interest.