Cities of Integrity Survey 2020
South Africa, Zambia, 2020
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If you responded Yes to Question 53, why was or wasn't the professional code of (q56)
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121
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| Value | Category |
|---|---|
| Accountability | |
| Anyone can submit a land development application even if they are not registered with SACPLAN | |
| As with many such documents the content is somewhat vague / general | |
| Because ZIP is not functioning fully to deal with ethical matters. It's our individual sense of loyalty to ZIP which we follow. | |
| Because they help me in performing my duties | |
| Boundaries of ethical conduct established clearly | |
| Can only be a guideline - your inherent way of operating must be ethical | |
| Clear on what is expected and what not | |
| Code of conduct often vague on values such as people/client centeredness | |
| Compliance driven and divorced from reality | |
| Direct planners on how they should conduct themselves in the work place | |
| Does not protect the planning profession sufficiently | |
| Don't really read it | |
| Enable me to handle myslef in working environment | |
| Enforcement | |
| Fairly clear in what is considered unethical behaviour. | |
| Guides me to do my job properly | |
| Haven't read it. | |
| Help with following the procedure of Land use applications | |
| Helped to stay in chech | |
| Helps me yo evaluate my behavior | |
| I check my conduct against the code | |
| I don't fully trust the ethics of the Government in applying the code | |
| I don't think people even know what is stated in there. | |
| I haven't used it. | |
| I m not sure oy the reason | |
| It aids me to know the dangers of corruption | |
| It became politized | |
| It binds you to a higher purpose and standard. | |
| It creates a baseline for ethical conduct | |
| It did apply to the subject matter at hand | |
| It gives guidance on how every employee must behave and conduct themselves at the place of work | |
| It gives guidance to behavior conduct and ethics | |
| It guides how i handle projects and relate to clients | |
| It guides personal behaviour and conduct | |
| It helps in spelling out the do's and the don'ts. No ambiguity | |
| It helps me to keep in check of my work boundaries | |
| It helps or guide how to conduct oneself professionally | |
| It helps planners to execute duties within the confines of the law | |
| It helps to know the dos and fonts in our professional | |
| It is a compact document which outlines the purpose and key principles for ethical behavior. It is easy to understand. | |
| It is clearly formulated and quite specific | |
| It is linked to my contract, my job plan and performance review | |
| It is not really applied and I have not seen anyone being reported to the professional body. There is no consequences for deregistering a planner | |
| It is only really relevant to those who agree with the principles. Not regulated enough | |
| It is outdated and generally the current generation of planners doesn't take it seriously. | |
| It is somewhat ambiguous in certain instances | |
| It is useful in as far as it guides me on what to do. | |
| It outlines my dos and don'ts | |
| It protects both the planner and client | |
| It protects the planner and the firm | |
| It provided a guide/mirror to maintaining my integrity | |
| It provides direction for action taken | |
| It provides guidance in planning practice to avoid making mistakes | |
| It regulates ones conduct | |
| It resonates with the code of conduct in the public service.Therefore, I make reference to it. | |
| It serves has a Guide to professional conduct | |
| It set the behavioral expectations of ones conduct in practice | |
| It should be renewed yearly by all registered professionals. | |
| It sometimes collides with the 'way of doing things' on the ground | |
| It states what is expected of planners i.e gives some guidance | |
| It's acted as direction | |
| It's important because it's guard my ways of work | |
| It's just paper, mostly it's very subjective | |
| It's not followed | |
| It's not lawfully followed | |
| It's provides guidance | |
| It's useful as a reference when I am in a situation that may be difficult to know how to approach. | |
| It's useful in terms of knowing the boundaries upon which I, or my client can or cannot cross | |
| It's useful to remind staff on the our core purpose is to serve civil society as a civil servant | |
| Its rare ly ever enforced | |
| Its useful | |
| Its useful because it guides the users what to follow wen executing their duties | |
| Keeps professionals in check | |
| Lack of accountability for those who flaunt the rules. | |
| N/A | |
| No | |
| Not being inforced | |
| Not filtering through into policy and not making the voice of private planners strong enough politically or socially. | |
| Not really enforced, does not prevent bad behaviour, good people dont need a code to do their duties well | |
| Not refered to often | |
| Not that important in places of work. i.e. orientation to work environment does not include it. | |
| PERSONAL ATTITUDE AND PRINCIPLES | |
| Planners deal with issues at the level of principle - high level solutions / programmes / plans / strategies etc. The principles are broad, and like our policy - so broad that they can, be applied differently by different professionals who | |
| Promote Professionalism | |
| Promote ethical practice and standards | |
| Provides a reminder of how to execute one's duties | |
| Provides guidance on how to ensure morally correct professional behavior. | |
| SACPLAN FAILS TO PROTECT OUR CAREER AS PLANNERS. ANYONE CAN SUBMIT APPLICATIONS NOWADAYS. | |
| SACPLAN do not function effectively, there is no response from them. The rules are not clearly stated. | |
| SACPLAN has in more than 25 years never acted in the interest of the profession of its members. They can't even answer or reply to an e-mail. Give no protection to the profession and no professional job protection. It is public knowledge that m | |
| Somewhat not enforced | |
| States what constitutes ethical conduct | |
| The SACPLAN does not act on planners who are unethical. | |
| The code of conduct is clearly described. | |
| The code of conduct provided is clear but must be updated. | |
| The confusion comes in the implementation. | |
| The environment within a planner works in does not support him or her to work according with the demand of the Code of conduct | |
| There is some recourse if the code is violated by practitioners - however those not registered with the professional body are not bound by the code of conduct- these unregulated people performing planning work are a major concern. | |
| They do not represent all other planners like Social Planners and Environmental . the body only focuses on Urban planners | |
| To Long and cumbersome to read - needs to be Impactful and easy to adopt | |
| To guide on how urban development should be managed | |
| To long and complex | |
| To provide a framework of professional performance as i conduct my work | |
| To provide clarification on issues of ethical dilemma. To also help enhance protection of integrity and core values of the profession... | |
| Vague enough to allow for manipulation and not flexible enough to consider socio/political context | |
| Very useful | |
| Very useful because it guides the manner in which we planners must practice our profession | |
| gives directives which is not always acknowledged by all professionals | |
| helps to keep me in track | |
| it helps keep me focused on my professional expectations and demands | |
| so that i could understand the boundaries to planning and also how to behave around my colleges | |
| the code of conduct guides me in my professional conduct | |
| useful as it stipulates the expectations from planners professionally and socially |
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.
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