Beyond Hammurabi

This article expands the conceptualization of ethics failure in the study and practice of the public service. Various definitions of ethics failure are tied to the two central approaches, internal and external, to controlling ethics failure. The historical antecedents of these approaches are also discussed. Recent criticisms from the literature of conventional formulations of ethics failure, which focus on financial fraud and its legal controls and remedies, are discussed. The definition of ethics failure is taken beyond this traditional focus on financial fraud to encompass routine organizational errors that result in harm to individuals and systemic violations of justice, civil liberties, and human dignity. This expanded definition is accompanied by a six-fold taxonomy of ethics failure, which can serve to enrich research into ethics failure and organizational responses to these problems. Finally, suggestions for future research and policy directions are offered

Business ethics · Conceptualization · Dignity · Engineering ethics · Harm · Information ethics · Political science · Public relations · Public service · Sociology · Computer Science · Corruption and Economic Development · Engineering · Ethics in Business and Education · Law · Regulation and Compliance Studies

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