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SPIRIT OF SERVICE

Social service does not mean merely going out into the streets and cleaning them. Whatever work you are engaged in, whatever duties you have to perform as an official or an employee, to do your duties efficiently and with diligence and devotion is also Seva (social service). Those in authority who discharge their functions well enough to justify the salary they receive are rendering real service. But such persons are rare. Employees agitate for more wages but do not render commensurate service to justify the incomes they receive. Disinterested service will ennoble man and raise his stature. It endows man with the intelligence and the skills required to refine human nature.  Doing one's duty diligently is not enough. Men have to cultivate other qualities like love, sympathy, fairness, compassion and forgiveness. Only when one has these qualities will he be able to render dedicated service. It is the sense of dualism---of "mine" and "thine"--which accounts for all...

NEW PUBLIC MANAGEMENT AND ITS SALIENT FEATURES

According to the term "new public management," it is a "summary explanation of a method of reorganising public sector organisations to bring their management, reporting, and accounting techniques closer to (a specific perspective of) corporate operations. "The new public management approach focuses on the flaws and deficiencies of government performance throughout time, blaming them on the nature and methods of government activity and administration". The new public management is intended to address centralised bureaucracies, waste and inefficiency in resource usage, and insufficient accountability systems. Reputable founding fathers of the New Public Management paradigm, Osborn, Christopher Hood, and Gaebler, underlined the importance of reinvesting government structures in their book. Back in the day, government institutions were overly focused on bureaucratic aspects, making them too slow and stiff to function properly. Only formal organisations and governme...

BUSINESS ETHICS AND CORPORATE SCANDALS

BUSINESS ETHICS:  Business ethics (also known as corporate ethics) is a type of applied ethics or professional ethics that looks at ethical principles as well as moral or ethical issues that emerge in the workplace. It applies to both people and huge companies and encompasses all aspects of business activity. Business ethics has both normative and descriptive dimensions. As a business practice and a professional speciality, the field is mostly normative. When trying to understand business behaviour, academics use descriptive methodologies. The breadth and number of business ethical challenges reflect the coupling of profit-maximizing behaviour with non-economic concerns. During the 1980s and 1990s, both within big firms and within academia, there was a surge in interest in business ethics. Most big firms, for example, now emphasize their devotion to non-economic ideals under terms like ethics codes and social responsibility charters. "People of the same trade rarely get together, ...

INTERNATIONAL ETHICS AND FUNDING

Ethics is the study of a moral code of conduct or ideal behaviour that humans should strive for. It also serves as a guide to the field of international relations. International ethics is a branch of international relations theory concerned with the scope and extent of ethical obligations between nations in a globalised world. It explains how countries and other entities regard other countries and their citizens. It provides direction to the international community on how to address global concerns. The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), for example, has aided in the equitable distribution of resources in the world's oceans. There has been a lot of progress in the resurgence of ethics in modern International Relations. Scholars have been debating the appropriate behaviour of states, institutions, and people for decades.  International ethics:  International ethics is defined as the benefits that international interactions, exchanges, and relationships ca...