1.4: Senior Officials
Increase OGE’s focus on senior officials’ role in implementing the ethics program. Other Information:
The ethical culture of an organization starts at the top. Research shows that there is a strong relationship between leaders
“paying attention” to ethics and desirable program results such as employee willingness to seek ethics advice when needed.
In FY 2005, OGE began assessing executive branch employee perceptions of whether agency leadership and supervisors pay attention
to ethics. OGE will continue these assessments, and will increase its efforts to provide specialized services to agency leaders
and supervisors. Strategy for Objective 1.4: Promote agency leadership support in ensuring an ethical culture within the
agency. OGE must promote the ethics program to all senior agency officials. OGE will reach out to these senior officials
prior to or at the time they enter public service by providing educational materials and, where appropriate, opportunities
for discussion, focused on ethics issues that are unique to high-level positions of authority as well as the general ethics
issues faced by all executive branch employees.
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