ABSTRACT
In Tanzania, since its independence in 1961, the government has taken various measures to ensure adherence to ethical standards by public servants. One of these measures is the establishment of code of ethics and conduct for public servants and different institutions to ensure the effective implementation of the code. Nevertheless, the current reports show that the existence of unethical practices and integrity violations in the Tanzania public service is self-evident. The assumption that the existence of formal code of ethics will generally yield high standards of behavior and inhibit unethical conducts in the public service does not hold. In the same vein, the transformation from public administration to new public management reforms in Tanzania which came with a new organizational culture and the development of ethical leadership training programs have not been fully investigated. The goal of this chapter is to investigate the existing ethics framework in Tanzania public service and the introduction of new public management reforms and its impact on promoting the ethical conduct of public servants in Tanzania. To this end, the qualitative enquiry with documentary review and content analysis was carried out. The reviewed documents including integrity reports, controller and auditor general reports, the government performance reports, and budgets and the government reforms reports were subject to review. Finally, the findings were analyzed through content analysis which was guided by the main objective of the study.
