Peculiarities of working culture and ethics in the public sector

Abstract

Conflicts in the work of public sector officers are the negative appearance, because of their negative impact on the person itself and the people around – customers, colleagues. It has negative impact on the efficiency of work, communication, working atmosphere. Culture – the informal aspects of organizations – are the values, beliefs, ethics, and motives of individual participants in addition to the shared norms and understandings that broadly characterize the organization or its subunits. The article analyses peculiarities of ethics and working culture in public sector. Authors try to reveal and evaluate the specialities of the ethic and working culture of the Klaipeda municipality employees