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Installing A Moral Learning Process: Integity Beyond Traditional Ethics Training, Julien Topal

Center for the Advancement of Public Integrity (Inactive)

Can civil servants be trained to make better decisions? Can government agencies steeped in bureaucracy become agile, learning organizations that can keep strengthening their integrity structures in a meaningful way? We believe that agencies whose employees are systematically trained to “do right by the other,” i.e., all those with whom and for whom they work, can reach those goals. What’s more, such agencies will end up with fewer integrity breaches, more reporting of problematic behavior by employees, and will be more trusted by their employees and by the citizenry.

A governmental organization that seeks to enhance its integrity needs …

Seven Principles Of Highly Effective Inspectors General, Glenn A. Fine

Center for the Advancement of Public Integrity (Inactive)

As the Acting Inspector General (IG) of the Department of Defense (DoD), and the former IG of the Department of Justice (DOJ), I am often asked about general principles that apply to the work of IGs. IGs occupy some of the most important but least understood positions in the federal government. There are IGs in most federal agencies – 73 IGs in total – and IGs are different in many ways. However, based on my experience in the IG community, I believe several basic principles apply to the work of IGs on the federal as well as the state and …