Types of Moral Behaviors of Public Administrators: Pamukkale University Ethics Research

Abstract

The mentality for Turkish political morality, based on the structural diseases of the Turkish public administration inherited from the Ottoman Empire, has its own peculiarity. Studies on political and administrative ethics within the discipline of public governance in Turkey, date back to after 1980. This study aimed to explain which moral behavior that the executives exhibit in Turkish public governance. For this purpose, an questionnaire was conducted on a sample group of 110 people consisting of Pamukkale University administrators, based on the case studies of Steinberg and Austern. The results analyzed after the research were evaluated according to these analyzes, the executive personnel in Turkish public management exhibit a more duty-ridden moral attitude.