Structural Violence in Public Service: A Study of the Impact of Corruption on Employees’ Attitude to Work in Public Organizations

Abstract

The consequences of corruption can be devastating to any organization or nation where the menace is
pervasive. This study focusses on assessing corruption as structural violence in public organization and
its impact on employees’ attitudinal change and service delivery. The study adopts quantitative method,
and collects primary data using questionnaires. With the use of random sampling, 363 respondents
were drawn as sample from the study population, and administered questionnaires to. 352
questionnaires were eventually recovered and made available for analysis using statistical package for
social sciences (SPSS). The consequences of corruption were explored in the study. It identified brain
drain, poor infrastructural facilities, poor socio-economic development and poor service delivery
among other conditions of human insecurity. The result of the study shows that corruption has negative
influence or impact on employees’ attitude to work, as it among others, weakens the morale of
employees and impede efficient and effective service delivery in public organization.