Why Did Yeongdeungpo-gu Grade 6 (Team Leader) and Above Officials Undergo the 'Corruption Risk Diagnosis Evaluation'?

Corruption Management Through In-House Developed 'Personalized FHPA Diagnostic Model'... Consecutive Top Integrity Awards at Last Year's Seoul City and Anti-Corruption Commission Evaluations

[Asia Economy Reporter Jongil Park] Yeongdeungpo-gu (District Mayor Chae Hyun-il) is leading a transparent organizational culture by conducting a ‘Public Official Corruption Risk Diagnosis Evaluation’ to improve the integrity of district administration.

The Corruption Risk Diagnosis Evaluation is a system that diagnoses and analyzes the possibility of corruption exposure within the organization. The district conducts this evaluation annually to enhance trust in district administration.

This evaluation reflected the public’s expectations for integrity in public service and targeted public officials at the level of team leader (grade 6) or higher within the district office. The evaluation used the standard survey model of the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission and was conducted from May 10 to 21 by accessing the evaluation site via text messages and emails sent to smartphones. The evaluation panel consisted of all employees of Yeongdeungpo District Office, and anonymity was strictly guaranteed.

The Corruption Risk Diagnosis Evaluation was conducted in four areas: ▲organizational environment corruption risk ▲work environment corruption risk ▲individual integrity ▲self-diagnosis checklist.

The district plans to systematically analyze the results of the ‘Corruption Risk Diagnosis Evaluation’ and use them as a foundation to prepare improvements for enhancing integrity.

The district has continuously worked to improve management issues in the existing anti-corruption promotion system, the ‘Executive Corruption Risk Diagnosis Evaluation.’ Since 2020, it has established an active management system for corruption blind spots within the organization through ▲objective evaluation of individual integrity for middle managers and above ▲customized diagnosis and notification ▲inducing autonomous management and introducing continuous management devices.

The core of this corruption blind spot management system is the personalized FHPA diagnostic model developed by the district itself. It was developed to allow easy understanding at a glance by displaying individual evaluation results in four areas?Fairness (F), Healthiness (H), Prohibition (P), and Action (A)?as ▲overall evaluation ▲excellence, caution, and improvement recommendations ▲gap compared to the previous year ▲and the individual’s position on the group score distribution chart.

Thanks to the district’s active efforts to foster an integrity-based organizational culture, the ‘Customized FHPA Diagnostic Model’ won the grand prize in the anti-corruption category at the ‘2020 Anti-Corruption and Integrity Practice Best Cases’ hosted by Seoul City.

Additionally, the district achieved a first-grade rating in the ‘2020 Public Institution Corruption Prevention Policy Evaluation’ conducted by the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission. This is a historic achievement as the only metropolitan and local government nationwide to receive a first-grade rating for three consecutive years.

Chae Hyun-il, Mayor of Yeongdeungpo-gu, stated, “Integrity is a fundamental virtue of public officials, and executives must set an example first. We will continue to strive for district administration based on integrity to create a cleaner and more trusted transparent integrity city, Yeongdeungpo.”

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