Volume 29, Issue 1
DOI: 10.24205/03276716.2020.130
PSYCHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS ON CIVIL SERVANTS COMMITTING IMMORAL BEHAVIOR
Abstract
In recent years, the immoral behaviors of civil servants, such as corruption, have severely tarnished the image of the Chinese government. To curb these immoral behaviors, this paper analyzes the psychological mechanism of civil servants that commit immoral behavior. First, the significance of professional ethics construction for civil servants was highlighted, the evolution and mechanism of the psychology of immoral behavior were summarized. Next, 300 junior civil servants in Shenzhen, China were subjected to a questionnaire survey on their professional ethics. The survey data were analyzed from the aspects of career motivation, career value orientation, self-evaluation ability, and achievement demand. The results how that the civil servants generally acknowledge the importance of professional ethics, boast good awareness and analytical ability of their behavior, have strong desire for power and money, and find it wrong to blame subordinates. On this basis, several suggestions were presented to prevent immoral behaviors of civil servants in China. This paper is of great significance for the construction of professional ethics among civil servants
Keywords
Civil Servants, Professional Ethics, Corruption, Psychological Analysis.