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Ethics in public organizations is an extremely wide topic. Essentially, ethics is a philosophical branch seeking to address issues of morality. In most public organizations, ethics is used to address the fundamental department of public administration as a public servant sector. This is the moral consideration and justification for actions and decisions made in the process of implementing of day-to-day activities during work to provide the obvious services of nonprofits and public organizations. Ethics is the basis used to scrutinize the degree of accountability of employees in these organizations. In public organizations, decisions are made based on ethical principles, which are viewed by the public as being correct. Such a distinction promotes an organizational culture where administrators have to act on a set of ethical principles by questioning whether those principles are holding on to public scrutiny. These principles have also been used to monitor the conduct of public administrators including their personal lives. Evidently, public organizations strive to create open environments in government operations (Craig, 2006).

Workplace ethics describes the way employees of a company interact with each other and outsiders. In the recent years, managers in organizations have been involved in theft, lying and data manipulation thus costing the organization billions of dollars. Such immoral behaviors called for the implementation of comprehensive workplace ethics. However, up-to-date, it is not yet clear what workplace ethics should be (Craig, 2006).

In my view, the current state of ethics in place may be considered as