공공기관의 윤리, 평가로 높일 수 있는가?: 공공기관 윤리경영 평가에 대한 분석

Behaviors that undermine the ethics of executives and employees of public institutions reduce the legitimacy and rationality of policies. When you look at the results of the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission investigation and many cases in the media, the reputation of public institutions about ethics has not improved. An analysis of ethical management evaluation of public institutions based on the handbook shows that the importance of the evaluation on ethical management has continuously increased, and the level of specificity of the evaluation has increased. In other words, ethical management was evaluated by a separate evaluation index, its weight continued to increase, and the evaluation contents were materialized. However, questions were raised about the effectiveness of the evaluation of ethical management. Korea Land and Housing Corporation, which received B+, the highest grade among public companies in the evaluation of ethical management in 2018, was evaluated as “the internal control system in terms of compliance and ethical management did not work properly” in 2020. There is a need for an answer on whether the efforts and performance of public institutions to raise the ethical level of employees through the establishment of an ethical management system can be improved through evaluation. In order to raise the level of ethical management through evaluation, it is necessary to rationally design the evaluation system in the process of system design with enhancing the roles of evaluation members and evaluation team, and to make efforts as a whole of the evaluation group. In addition, ethical management experts’ participation in evaluation of ethics, expansion of education on evaluation methods, establishment of a team-oriented evaluation, continuous monitoring and convergence of evaluation results reflecting this can be considered.