Field study unearths corruption in public job almost 42 percent
The Source: www.sabanews.net - 2/1/2009
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A field study covered seven ministries and five governmental bodies
unearthed 42.5 percent practices of administrative corruption in the
public job.
The study revealed that 57 percent of employees are committed to moral practices of the public job.
According
to indicators, the study finds reverse relations between morals of
public job and the administrative corruption. Impartiality and justice
are the less morals practiced in the public job while mediation and
favoritism are most cores of administrative corruption.
The
study analyzed level of administrative corruption on the basis of eight
factors, mediation 56.3%, followed by favoritisms 51%, commission 41.3,
defalcation 40.5, deleting public resources 40.3, bribery 36.5 and
forging 29 percent.
While level of practicing morals by
employees of the public job has been measured by nine cores; honesty
come first 70. 5 percent followed by accountability 67.3, committing of
work 66.8, serving others 62, institutional loyalty 61.8, truth 57.5,
preserving public possessions 54.5, justice 50.5 and impartiality 42.8
percent.
The study, which was made by the National
Institute for Administrative Sciences, caries the title of "Effects of
Public Job Morals in Limiting Administrative Corruption". It aims at
knowing situation of public job moralities and range of implementing
them by public employee while performing his duties and effects of
committing to these morals in limiting administrative corruption.
The
study also aims at unearthing extent of existing distinctions with
statistical significance and the extent of committing to them on the
basis of age, sex, family size, administrative level, period of the
service and employing body.
The study showed that male are
more corrupt and less committed to moralities of public job than female
employees of the public job across all administrative cores included in
the study.
The study found weak reverse relation between
levels of practicing morals of public job and both monthly salary and
educational qualification. However, there is strong reverse relation
between administrative corruption and both work, monthly salary,
educational qualifications and years of experiences.
Despite
measures taken by the government for fighting corruption and limiting
it, these measures could not eradicate corruption. The study referred
this failure to weakness of implementation of these measures and
lacking to suitable procedures and necessary conditions for supporting
them.
The study made on sample composed of three thousand
employees distributed in seven ministries; education, civil service,
finance, local administration, endowments and higher education in
addition to telecommunication and electricity corporations. The sample
also covered the National Institute for Administrative Sciences and
Central Organization for Control and Audit.
The locations of
the sample are distributed on six governorates; Capital Sana'a, Aden,
Taiz, Hadramout, Ebb, and Hudeida. The sample included 80 percent of
male studied person and 20 percent of female. The sample included all
job posts starting with employee degree and ending with general
manager.
While administrative corruption leads to
administrative, economic, political and social damages, the study
indicates that eradicating it requires setting up integrated strategy
for fighting corruption and linking it to suitable and active measures
for implementing it.
The study came out with a number of
recommendations for improving commitment of practicing morals of public
job and limiting administrative corruption.
The most important
of these recommendations are working on enhancing morals that has
realized highest ratios in moralities' measurements; honesty,
accountability, helping others, commitment to work and giving priority
for fighting administrative corruption practices that realized highest
ratios such mediation, favoritisms and blackmailing.
The
recommendations stressed on giving governmental anti-corruption bodies
priority for fighting components of administrative corruption that
recorded highest levels starting with fighting mediation and favoritism
via focusing on supervising them.
The study recommended
activating parliamentarian and judicial control on works of public
administration and its mechanisms. It also recommended revising laws,
systems and by-laws as well as clarifying ambiguity hindering
implementing them.
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