While social sanctions codified as legal provisions work as homogenizing factor, that is, these are applicable to all persons of a country in the same way. These provisions are supposed to be fool-proof but since fool-proof concept is relative, these provisions have holes. More and more people make attempt to locate these holes and lawyers come to their help.
You can easily imagine the ultimate outcomes of such legal provisions. Informal social sanctions are in the form of moral pressures. These work when social conditions favorable, otherwise these do not work. In our country, employees of a particular state Government have coined a novel work ethic: we are paid just to come office and not to work.
It is the bribe that we receive is the remuneration for our work.” Wow, what a wonderful work ethic. ! Even management experts may feel shy: why they could not coin such a wok ethic. IAS officers have formed an association. All IAS officers are its members. Looking at the prevalence of corruption in Government offices, the association decided to identify the most corrupt IAS officer every year. This number has been increased subsequently. However, this practice of identifying the top corrupt IAS officer has not been proved effective in the absence of deterrent and exemplary punishment.
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