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Core Values of Civil Servants and Administrative Ethics / Tsai Liang-Wen

Due to that civil servants represent the government externally and provide high quality services, it is indispensable for a civil servant both to treat people with attitudes of fairness, selflessness, equality and honesty, and to serve people's need with proactiveness, creativity, neutrality and the ability to cope with emergency. As a result from that currently while performing missions, a civil servant often has to act based on their own concepts of values as well as in accordance with applicable provisions of laws, or even have to take into account whether it is in conformation with factors such as public welfare, administrative procedures etc, in order to take the most appropriate step to deal with any concrete cases. We should give weight to and discuss how a civil servant should do to redress and continue the implementation of both the administration system in pursuant to laws and debureaucratisation to promote the core values of institutions, and functions and energy of civil servant system in determining the actions of execution and ethical values.
In our view, there should be a higher level of loyalty to nation, integrity and the judging standard on incorporating administrative ethics into administrative neutrality on the core values of innovation, aggressiveness and specialty specified by Executive Yuan to consolidate the social administrative ethics concepts of fairness and justice. Hence, we now live in a time of chaos, also a time of achievement when social disorder phenomena are caused due to the confusion of value concepts and that the concepts of ethics are becoming feebler and feebler day by day. Although there is still room to discuss the statement above, the statement does point out the significance of concepts of both values and ethics. Consequently, a civil servant shall be loyal to both nation and people based on the Constitutional spirits and national interest to consolidate the connection between core values and administrative ethics and then to further maintain harmony in society and promote the benefits of people by establishing right core values and ethical concepts.

Key words:national interest, loyalty to nation, core values, core abilities, administrative neutrality, administrative ethics