What is Corruption?

What is Corruption? And what is not? 

Definitions and Dilemmas

Corruption is a broad term covering a wide range of misuse of entrusted funds and power for privat gain: Theft, fraud, nepotism, abuse of power etc. A corrupt act is often - but not necessarily - illegal. In handling corruption you will often face a gray zones and dilemmas

Dilemmas: What is corruption - and what is not?

In many countries, corruption is everywere and daily life is riddled with situations in the gray zone between legal and illigal. Many people accept petty corruption as a fact of life. But what should you accept in your own organisation?

Were do you draw the line between acceptable and unacceptable behavior? Check out these dilemmas from real life - and use them as starting points for discussions.

More or less corrupt...

Corruption exists everywhere. The causes might differ, however, whether corruption results from a need, a culture or simply from an opportunity too tempting not to exploit, it influences the way we deal with it - or don’t deal with it.

In the 2014 Corruption Perceptions Index, issued by the anti-corruption organisation Transparency International, Denmark, New Zealand and Finland were at the top of the list. Somalia and North Korea were to be found at the bottom of the list as the World's most corrupt countries.