Contract scenarios in public organizations have brought about many ethical issues. This is especially true when awarding contracts to private organizations. For instance, awarding of contracts awarded based on the low costs only rather than considering the best value scenario of the potential bids. Personal integrity is essential to avoiding and minimizing deceit and corruption in organizations. Having systems that encourage integrity reduces cases of corruption or deceit, in organizations.
Ethical dilemmas present a tremendous avenue through which public officials in most government institutions can regain the confidence of the public. However, how one addresses such ethical dilemmas can either worsen the situation or improve the public’s trust in the organization. The public official has to be principled enough to resist political and professional pressures so as to make ethical decisions. Focusing on building trust is vital in promoting ethical conduct in most public organizations. In situations where the public official has to make crucial decisions relating to ethics, consultation with other parties involved or affected by the matter may seek to ensure that the needs of all parties involved are addressed.
Allowing the progress of unethical behavior results in the behavior being viewed a common behavior despite their being rules that govern certain conducts. Levels of corruption in most public organizations begin as a simple failure to enter a particular entry in the financial records. If the omission goes unnoticed, the public official may be encouraged to continue omitting entries until one day a large amount of money will have disappeared in the process. Ethics program set up to curb unethical behavior should be designed to be effective by having a way through which progress can be quantified.
