Perception of Civil Servants on the Knowledge of Integrity and Corruction Level in Three State Agencies in Terengganu, Malaysia
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Abstract
Malaysia in its effort to become a fully developed nation by 2020 has undertaken a monumental task in instilling noble values into its society including its civil sector. The objective of this research was to examine the level of awareness, knowledge and understanding of integrity among selected civil servants of three State agencies in Terenganu, Malaysia, which basically served as the scope of the research. The respondents were selected based on a purposive sampling technique. The research used a quantitative approach where self-administered structured questions were distributed. Descriptive and inference analysis were carried out to meet the research objectives outlined. The research findings indicated that there were civil servants groups who were unclear and uncertain about the meaning of integrity in public sector. Those with shorter length of services were found to be less knowledgeable on the respective rule and procedure which led to them being unsure about integrity. The civil servants also believed that corruption level in Malaysia was still high. The research contended that length of service was inversely related to the perception on the knowledge of integrity, corruption and quality of service delivery.Keywords: Integrity; Civil Servants; Perception; Corruption; Public Sector; Public Service Resume: Dans l'effort de devenir une nation pleinement developpee d'ici a 2020, la Malaisie a entrepris une tâche monumentale pour inculquer des valeurs nobles dans la societe, y compris dans le secteur civil. L'objectif de cette recherche etait d'examiner le niveau de sensibilisation, de connaissances et de comprehension de l'integrite des fonctionnaires selectionnes des trois organismes d'Etat a Terenganu en Malaisie, qui a essentiellement servi a la portee de la recherche. Les repondants ont ete selectionnes sur la base d'une technique d'echantillonnage raisonnee. La recherche a utilise une approche quantitative ou des questions auto-administrees et structurees ont ete distribuees. Des analyses descriptives et inferees ont ete realisees pour repondre aux objectifs enonces de recherche. Les resultats de la recherche a indique qu'il y avait des groupes de fonctionnaires civils qui n'etaient pas claires sur le sens de l'integrite dans le secteur public. Ceux avec une plus courte duree de services ont ete trouves d'etre moins bien informes sur la regle respective et la procedure, ce qui les a donne un doute sur l'integrite. Les fonctionnaires ont egalement estime que le niveau de corruption en Malaisie etait toujours eleve. La recherche a fait valoir que la duree de service etait liee inversement a la perception de la connaissance de l'integrite, de la corruption et de la qualite de prestation des services.Mots-cles: integrite; fonctionnaires; perception; corruption; secteur prive; service public
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".