Transparency and Accountability Practices of Local Government Units in the Philippines: a Measurement from the Ground

Abstract

The organizational practices of government personnel are indispensable components of building public trust and confidence. The 56 department heads and 662 personnel from two cities and five municipalities in the Philippines showed that transparency practices in the domains of: a) decision making, b) procurement, and access to public information are from “almost always to always” equated to “high” observance of accountability practices. Applying Mann Whitney U test and Kruskal-Wallis test, proved that there was no significant difference in terms of observance of transparency practices in access to information and decision making. But significant difference is found in the transparency practices on procurement.

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Transparency and Accountability Practices of Local
Government Units in the Philippines:
a Measurement from the Ground
Arneil G. Gabriel
1,2
&Laila Castro Castillo
3
#Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2019
Abstract
The organizational practices of government personnel are indispensable components of
building public trust and confidence. The 56 department heads and 662 personnel from
two cities and five municipalities in the Philippines showed that transparency practices
in the domains of: a) decision making, b) procurement, and access to public informa-
tion are from “almost always to always”equated to “high”observance of accountability
practices. Applying Mann Whitney U test and Kruskal-Wallis test, proved that there
was no significant difference in terms of observance of transparency practices in access
to information and decision making. But significant difference is found in the trans-
parency practices on procurement.
Keywords Organizational practice .Transparency and accountability .Public Sector .
Local governance .Philippines
Introduction
The organizational practices of government personnel are indispensable component of
building public trust and confidence. It cannot be denied that work ethics and organi-
zational culture prevailing in the Local Government Unit (LGU) are reflections of
Public Organization Review
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*Arneil G. Gabriel
opats14@yahoo.com; gabrielarneil@gmail.com
Laila Castro Castillo
lemrave@gmail.com
1
Department of Public Administration, Nueva Ecija University of Science and Technology,
Cabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija, Philippines
2
City Engineer’s Office, Local Government of Cabanatuan City, Cabanatuan City, Nueva
Ecija, Philippines
3
City Government of Cabanatuan, Cabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija, Philippines
(2020) 20:437–457
Published online: 13 August 2019
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