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Options available with merits and demerits: (1) Report ignorance and doesn't report corruption: Merits: (1) Personal welfare ensured (2) Career progression is not compromised Demerits: (1) Public welfare duty is neglected (2) Ignoring corruption is also being part of it (2) Report corruption to relevant authorities: Merits: (1) Funds will go to rightful social public (2) Will set a good precedent and reduce corruption (3) Utilitarianism approach [largest people welfare] Demerits: (1) Career progression jeopardized (2) Complaint may not be ignored due to vested interests (3) Displacing seniors above in hierarchy (3) Make audit report public by way of filing RTI by any NGO: Merits: (1) Public will question serious for their corruption (2) Could minimise severe repercussions on me Demerits: (1) Disclosure of critical information against secrecy (2) Seniors still displaced and Personal cost
My chosen course of action will first include effort at solving issue internally. I will ask seniors not to indulge in corruption and prevent misused of funds. If they don't heed my request, I will utilise internal mechanisms for exposing their corrupt practices. If still not action is taken, I will by to involve relevant NGOs to question the auditing report. So the long term, I will try to institutionalise transparency reforms like digitalization, social auditing, disclosure of information freely etc., so that in future, corruption can be minimised. Though my efforts may not be sufficient to eradicate the menace of corruption, but as Suka Jataka (where a parrot tries to extinguish fire by carrying water in his beak), signifies that no effort are wasted.
Conclusion
Though my efforts may not be sufficient to eradicate the menace of corruption, but as Suka Jataka (where a parrot tries to extinguish fire by carrying water in his beak), signifies that no effort are wasted.
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Corruption and Ethics
Options available with merit and demerits
Course of action against corruption
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