A behavioral model of unethical actions in public service for villagers Rita Ambarwati (a*), Fita F. Lestariana (a), Wisnu P. Setiyono (a)
a) Faculty of Business Law and Social Science, Universitas MUhammadiyah Sidoarjo
Jalan Majapahit 666B, Sidoarjo, Indonesia
*ritaambarwati[at]umsida.ac.id
Abstract
Issues of morality and ethics have increasingly become more important in local government and public service settings. Unethical actions mean all the actions which are not considered ethical and moral. Characters that form Unethical Acttion in public service are corruption and nepotism. The purpose of this research is to measure the level of unethical actions in a village public service. The design of this study is survey and the data is collected through cross section using questionnaire. The unit of analysis are all villagers who use village services regularly. The results of this study indicate that corruption is the dominant factor compared to the nepotism factor in forming unethical actions in public services. The practical im-plications of this research is useful for the local government especially for village service. They need to im-prove in the effort of decreasing an unethical action of public service.
Keywords: Unethical Actions; Village public service; Corruption; Nepotism
Topic: Organizational Behavior, Leadership and Human Resources Management
