OECD Public Integrity Handbook
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The OECD Public Integrity Handbook provides guidance to government, business and civil society on implementing the OECD Recommendation on Public Integrity. The Handbook clarifies what the Recommendation’s thirteen principles mean in practice and identifies challenges in implementing them. The Handbook provides guidance on improving co-operation within government, as well between the national and subnational levels. To build cultures of integrity across government and society, the Handbook details the core elements of a merit-based human resource management system and the key ingredients of open organisational cultures. It also clarifies government’s role in providing guidance to companies, civil society and citizens on upholding public integrity values. Moreover, the Handbook unpacks how to use the risk management process to assess and manage integrity risks, and highlights how to use the enforcement system to ensure real accountability for integrity violations.
Leadership
This chapter provides a commentary on the principle of leadership contained within the OECD Recommendation of the Council on Public Integrity. It describes how investing in integrity leadership can demonstrate a public sector organisation’s commitment to public integrity, and focuses on integrity leadership as a trait and style that can be developed early in future leaders. It also details the mechanisms for attracting and selecting integrity leaders. Moreover, the chapter reflects upon the incentives and accountability frameworks that can be drawn upon to reward integrity leadership. The chapter also addresses the challenge facing bureaucratic structures in supporting integrity leadership, focusing on the need for flexibility to reward and sanction ethical leadership and to ensure human resource management structures are fit-for-purpose in recruiting and promoting ethical leaders.
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