Ethics in the practice of local government officials

Abstract

This academic article has its objectives in being guidelines for local government officers to acknowledge their profession ethics and morality in order to maintain the goodness while conducting their profession such as being honest without bias, not being selfish or caring only the benefits of their own team, realizing their own duties, being open and sincere, as well as having a good leader personality with profession morality. These qualifications are a goodness system of being responsibility for their job and they concern officers on duty, work situations, work progress and outcomes, including benefit or thread receivers from such profession. Local government profession actually means provincial government officers, municipal officers, sub-district government officers, Bangkok Metropolitan government officers, Pattaya City officers, as well as other local government officers who are appointed by law and have become permanent officers earning salary by the budget mode of local governing organizations or supporting budget of government given to local governing organizations. Officers working in this kind of profession must give the most serious concern to the profession ethics due to they must work with well-being, welfare, life quality, including public safety in life and properties.