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9 Things That Make Corruption Strong
The abuse of power entrusted when used for personal gain may be defined as corruption. Corruption has a variety of levels depending on the amount of money lost and the sector of its occurrence.
Grand corruptions are the acts that are committed at a higher level of government; this can include distortion of policies, functioning of the state policies being manipulated and contracts offered to favored companies in exchange of favor. All this leads to the leaders benefiting and filling up their pockets at the expense of public good.
Petty corruptions are those acts that are mostly done by low- and mid-level public officials during their interaction with the general mass.
Political corruption involves manipulation of rules, procedures, resource allocation; financing political decision makes and involves politicians or powerful people who abuse their position.
Some countries like Finland, Sweden, New Zealand has been consistently ranked as the most transparent countries and almost corruption free ones. Yet, they also fail to achieve a cent percent score on the index cards.
The cause of corruption and how its roots are getting stronger with each passing day seems to elude us. Some of the root causes that might be strengthening this menace may be the following ones.
1. Low salaries:
Most often low paying jobs particularly that of civil servants are cited as a major cause for corruption. But this cannot be an excuse for being corrupt. It may be pertinent to say that before joining the person in question knew about the pay structure and all.
It is the excuse for being corrupt as low salaried honest people are not rare. There can be many other ways to earn an extra buck rather than being corrupt.
2. Wrong Policies:
Most government has policies where civil servants are not allowed to take up other job or profession once they enter service. This gets complicated when the particular service is low paying leads to greed and hence corrupt practices.
Also employees having high job securities seem to be careless about the task they are supposed to complete. Another aspect is the low professionalism in public service sector; hence people tend to cater their won interest rather than that of the public.
3. Greed:
This is the actual cause of all corruption and the most powerful reason that corruption continues to grow at an alarming rate. Greed can never be compensated with the salary. The more you get the more you want. More lavish lifestyle, more comfort and more of everything, greed keeps on growing and so does corruption.
4. Low Discretion and accountability:
People should have some degree of accountability and discretion in their job. The leaders and the top bosses need to set example and also give some power to the lower rung of people in service. Many times it has been seen that decisions made by a subordinate has been overruled by the senior bosses because of corrupt practices. This has to be stopped and good examples set for the subordinates and the future generations.
5. Lack of Transparency:
Every organization must have transparency. Offices should be open to examination. Tasks and functions need to be transparent and responsible chairs should be accountable and answerable for their actions or inactions.
6. Lengthy Judicial system:
Once a person is caught red handed during some unlawful and corrupt practice, the judicial system takes a lot of time to come up with the verdict. The judicial system has to design process to come up with fast and effective decisions that can act as warning to all who even think of being corrupt. It should be a warning to all.
7. You Owe Me:
Mostly high placed officials turn to defending their colleagues for some reason or the other. This has led to more corruptions and a kind of consortium seems to develop out of this. This seems to go on in cycles, everyone saving the other and favors being returned.
8. We the People:
We the people, the common mass also equally responsible for helping corruption grow healthier and stronger. We happily or grudgingly pay the bribe or do the favor to get our work done. We have to stop this and say ‘NO’, we need to be aware of our rights and fight for them.
9. Finally:
Corruption has become an integral part of our system, it seems. It grows in strength and volume with each passing day. Government may form policies and plans to curb this menace. But to kill the greed and selfishness in us, the fear within us is only and only our job. The watchdogs or whistleblowers need to have some more power and we also need to tighten our belts and come forward to wipe corruption.
About The Author: Margaret is a writer/blogger. She loves writing, travelling and blogging. She contributes in Roto Rooter Atlanta
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