Purpose

The purpose of the study is to investigate the feasibility of investing the religious heritage in anti-corruption efforts in public organizations in Palestine. The study sought to measure the current status of public organizations, if they are investing the religious heritage in the efforts of encountering corruption. Further, the study sought to measure the attitudes and future expectations if there is an integration of the religious heritage in the current anti-corruption efforts.

Design/methodology/approach

This study combines two folds: First, theoretical and qualitative, through research in previous studies, texts and religious attitude of corruption, historical models and international experiences that have tried to invest in it and incorporate it in anti-corruption efforts, which are generalizable generic models; and the second: a field empirical part, through the researcher use of a questionnaire tool and analyzing it statistically, in addition to ensuring the possibility of using religion in anti-corruption efforts within the Palestinian public institutions which will eventually enable us to answer the study questions.

Findings

The study found that the reality of investment in the religious heritage in anti-corruption efforts in the Palestinian public sector is present in a moderate degree (56.8%), both in rules and regulations, in strategic plans or policies, or in the internal systems and the organizational culture of the public institutions. With regard to the attitudes of the employees toward corruption and the way of their formulation to these attitudes either if they are influenced by the religious heritage or the law or by the eight reasons mentioned previously in this study, it is obvious that the employees attitudes toward corruption are formulated first from a religious perspectives and second from a legal perspective. Regarding their attitudes and their agreement level toward the investment of the religious heritage in anti-corruption in the Palestinian public sector was high (75.9%), as well as their future expectations in case the religious heritage is invested in anti-corruption efforts was in a high degree (74.1%). Therefore, the authors conclude that there is a feasibility of religious heritage investment in anti-corruption efforts in the Palestinian public sector in case it is accredited and integrated in anti-corruption strategies as a supportive factor but not as a substitute of other efforts. The study recommended that decision makers should adopt new anti-corruption policies and strategies compatible with these striking results through the rules, regulations and administrative decisions, or in the internal institutional system and the cultural organization, in the publications and declarations of the public institution, in special code of conduct based on the religious heritage, in the training of the employees and designing new proposals to integrate the religious heritage in anti-corruption efforts in parallel with the permanent evaluation of these efforts after its application.

Originality/value

This study, The feasibility of investing in religious heritage in anti-corruption efforts, is different from the previously reviewed studies, as the previous studies were either philosophical or theoretical in nature, looking at the relationship between religion and corruption or empirical, but in a different environment and society than the society of this study. The general purpose of this research is to identify the impact of religious perceptions on corruption in the behavior of public officials in the Palestinian public sector as it is on the ground, and whether their attitudes were affected by corruption with their religious beliefs? Do they welcome the investment of religion in the fight against corruption and what are their expectations if this is done in institutional, strategic or policy context.

中文翻译：

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在巴勒斯坦公共组织的反腐败工作中对宗教遗产进行投资的可行性

目的

这项研究的目的是调查在巴勒斯坦公共组织的反腐败工作中投资宗教遗产的可行性。这项研究试图衡量公共组织是否将当前的宗教遗产投入到腐败工作中来的现状。此外，该研究试图衡量在当前反腐败工作中是否整合了宗教遗产的情况下的态度和对未来的期望。

设计/方法/方法

这项研究包括两个方面：第一，理论和定性，通过对先前研究的研究，腐败的文本和宗教态度，试图对其进行投资并将其纳入反腐败努力的历史模式和国际经验，这些都是可概括的楷模; 第二部分：实地实证部分，通过研究人员使用问卷调查工具并进行统计分析，此外还确保了在巴勒斯坦公共机构内部进行反腐败工作中使用宗教的可能性，这最终将使我们能够回答研究问题问题。

发现

该研究发现，在巴勒斯坦公共部门的反腐败努力中，对宗教遗产的投资存在着中等程度（56.8％）的情况，无论是规章制度，战略计划或政策，还是内部制度。以及公共机构的组织文化。关于员工对腐败的态度以及他们对这些态度的表达方式，如果他们受到宗教遗产或法律的影响，或者受本研究中先前提到的八个原因的影响，很明显，员工对腐败的态度腐败首先是从宗教角度提出的，其次是从法律角度提出的。关于他们对巴勒斯坦公共部门在反腐败方面投资宗教遗产的态度和协议水平很高（75.9％），以及他们对将宗教遗产投资于反腐败工作的未来期望很高高度（74.1％）。因此，作者得出结论，如果将宗教遗产投资作为一种支持因素而不是替代其他努力的替代手段，将其认可并纳入反腐败战略，那么在巴勒斯坦公共部门的反腐败努力中就有可行性。该研究建议决策者应通过规则，法规和行政决定，采取与这些惊人结果相适应的新反腐败政策和策略，

创意/价值

这项研究《在反腐败努力中投资宗教遗产的可行性》与先前的研究有所不同，因为先前的研究本质上是哲学或理论的，着眼于宗教与腐败或经验之间的关系，但与本研究的社会不同的环境和社会。这项研究的总体目的是确定宗教观念对腐败对巴勒斯坦公共部门公职人员在地面上的行为的影响，以及他们的态度是否受其宗教信仰的腐败影响？他们是否欢迎在反腐败斗争中投入宗教，如果在体制，战略或政策背景下这样做，他们有何期望？