CORRUPTIONS RISKS IN THE SYSTEM OF PUBLIC POWER: PROBLEMS AND WAYS TO SOLVE THEM

The article is relevant due to the importance of understanding causes and conditions of corruption behavior of certain public servants and business representatives in order to form an effective anti-corruption system of public administration and counteracting corruption. Purpose of the article is to review and rationalize the corrupt personal traits, which are measurable and evaluative, that would distinguish such person from the citizen who is really intolerant towards corruption and ready to honestly and conscientiously fulfill the state and other important public functions. According to the author, it would create legal mechanisms to minimize the risk of corruption through more effective human resource policies aimed at avoiding hiring for public office persons with high risk of corrupt behavior. Analyzing the subjective side of corrupt behavior, the author concludes that a corrupt person is characterized, in varying degrees, by deformation of moral consciousness, which predetermines the dominance of egocentric orientation of the individual. Since the individual value orientations are very stable, their knowledge allows to predict with a high degree of probability the behavior of an individual in a particular situation affecting his personal or public interests. In order to minimize the risks of corruption, personnel policy has to take into account the peculiarities of the system of values of candidates for public office expressed in their moral and ethical qualities, considering as professionally unsuitable those ones, which dominates egocentric orientation of the person.