Perceptions of Executive Payment Abuse in Romanian Public Institutions

摘要

Nowadays, the social construction and reconstruction of Europe is highly needed. Romania, which is part of the EU has still a long way to go. In this vein, in the aftermath of the financial crisis, one major issue that has been deeply criticized is executive compensation abuse by public servants. Accordingly, the article highlights the participants' shared experiences (having to do with executive compensation abuse) and their perceptions on executive compensation abuse. The main objective of this research consists in exploring Romanian public servants' shared experiences concerning executive compensation abuse, as well as their perceptions, discrepancies and unsolved interrogations - presented within an ample, interconnected qualitative and quantitative methodological approach. A sample of 20 individuals was chosen for a triangulation method. From the triangulation resulted that, there are six new themes that derived from the interview/questionnaire, specifically referring to executive payment abuse namely: (a) ethics means knowing right from wrong, (b) perspectives of ethical behaviour, (c) types of executive payment abuse, (d) participant perceptions on institution and colleagues, (e) how payment abuse impacted employees, and (f) transparency is imperative.