Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• seyed mehdi alvani
• nour mohammad yaghubi

Abstract

The subject  of this article   is the issue of public  administration  and the necessity of strengthening ethical infrastructures.  Ethics in public service  is defined,  as a set  of principles to guide  conduct  or moral standards    in   public    organizations.   In   recent   decades,   it   has increasingly  become  major concerns  in public   administration   with more concentration in the  1980s  and 1990s.
The  specific  rational for putting  ethics on  the  reform  agenda  may vary from  one  country's  context  to another.  /11  this article some  of the reasons that show the concerns [or ethics are outlined. At  the last part  of the article  the authors  try to discuss some  of the key  issues such  as ethics codes.  ethics training,  assessing ethical  infrastructure, and  the effect  of organizational culture and structure on ethics.