Anti-Corruption and Ethics in procurement
INTRODUCTION
| This course provides you with a clear understanding of how to recognize, reduce and detect corrupt behaviour and conflicts of interest in public procurement, and increase awareness of the importance of ethical conduct throughout the whole procurement process. It also examines the role of internal controls and monitoring practices in corrupt contexts and how these controls and practices shape the ethics and moral behaviors of organizational actors. Specifically focusing on corruption in government procurement and drawing on the insights, the course proposes that effective anti-corruption practices depend upon an understanding and analysis of the practices and politics of visibility, and that effective ‘luminous arrangements’ have the potential to discourage corrupt practices and influence ethics within organizations. While such arrangements do not necessarily prevent corrupt practices, they do encourage certain actions and reactions among organizational actors, suggesting that organizational actors are at one and the same time free and autonomous, yet subject to and constructed by anti-corruption practices. These practices are thus both disciplinary and productive, affecting individuals in specific ways, while also benefitting the organizations for whom they work. Course Objectives By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
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