2023-08-05 03:30:00
Corruption and ethical degradation is a problem that conditions the normal functioning of the State and society. Some argue that if those responsible are persecuted and convicted, we can live happily and in harmony. It’s that easy? For the political and business class, corruption is often a means without which they have many problems to carry out their activities and pursue their interests.
For many citizens corruption is not the problem but what is done with it. They believe that it becomes a problem as long as it affects them personally, particularly financially. If the economic is satisfactory and there is a social order where it is possible to develop without threats, corruption is no longer a real problem. Thus, the electoral and social tolerance that justifies “he steals, but he does”. Until someone steals too much (plans or pots) or forgets to do so and loses the elections.
Corruption becomes a problem if it generates a crisis rather than because of its devastating moral and social consequences. It seems that without crisis there is no corruption. It is not a secret that immorality and illegality abound in many areas. Are we victims-accomplices of corruption? For sample … Argentine history.
Politics has a lot of responsibility. Corruption goes hand in hand with the political regime. It is not ordered if the power model is not ordered. Max Weber distinguished in politics between an ethic of convictions and an ethic of responsibility, making it clear that politics fundamentally demands the latter. A politician must have passion for a cause, restraint and a sense of responsibility. Above all, responsibility that makes him take into account the foreseeable consequences of his own action.
Acts of corruption are the heritage of justice, on the other hand, the impacts of corruption are a systemic problem that has to be resolved by politics. The impacts are more damaging than the acts, and they occur without the recognition of many of the necessary participants. “In an avalanche no snowflake feels responsible.” This is the case, for example, in public administration.
To avoid the impacts of corruption it is necessary to manage ethics. This is the innovation to incorporate to provide long-term sustainability. Democracy needs citizens who are very clear regarding the impacts of their actions and the extent of their social, environmental and organizational responsibility. That is why the importance of the purity of intentions, of personal good will, is relative if they are not committed to avoiding impacts. The final results of the action must be sustainable.
In slavery there were bosses who treated their slaves very well (“Uncle Tom”) but slavery was unsustainable. The same happens with CSR, where free enterprise should not be confused with the debauchery of pollution because it is not sustainable.
The discourse on corruption is something else. The discourse is frequently manipulated circumstantially by ideological, moral or legal assumptions. With the problem of corruption we don’t have to pretend to teach morality. We must accept that there is corruption and act accordingly managing ethics because institutionalized and structural corruption is not tolerable.
The culture of organizations is the result of the influence and behavior of leaders who develop a management style. Ethics must be managed so that there is only tolerable, residual, marginal and non-systemic corruption. To manage ethics, political decision, leadership and clear rules of the game (regulations), traceability of decisions and accountability, publicity of government acts, audits and periodic monitoring, certification of anti-corruption regulations and compliance with the legal framework (eg, national law 27401 on criminal liability of legal persons in contracts with the State).
Society must decide if it is willing to build a community where everyone feels included and protected within the framework of an integrity policy. Or if we accept living in a society whose members tolerate irresponsibility, cynicism and hypocrisy. To establish a good democracy, responsibility, criteria, virtue, desire and collective will are necessary. Yet another reason to end the crack that makes common projects impossible.
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