ABSTRACT
Issues of morality and ethics have increasingly become more important in local government and public service settings. Unethical behaviors refer to all activities considered non-ethical and immoral. The main causes of characters that form unethical action in public service are corruption and nepotism. The purpose of this research was to measure the level of unethical behaviors in a village public service. The design of this study was a survey and the data were collected through a cross-section method using a questionnaire. The unit of analysis was all villagers who used village services regularly. The results of this study indicated that corruption was more dominant compared to nepotism in forming unethical actions in public services. The practical implications of this research were useful for the local government, especially for village public service. They needed to improve the effort to reduce unethical behaviors in public service.
