2. What is Corruption
• The corrupt person want to get non taxable money from people who want
to get their work done quickly.
• The corrupt person is already being paid taxable money to do the same work
or to prevent the work from getting done.
3. The Basic Motivation of the Corrupt
• Past experience + Personality = Thinking
• The person is born with a certain personality
• While growing up, he has certain past experiences
• This can have an influence on his personality
• This results in a certain thinking pattern which results in corrupt behaviour
4. Past experience
• Low Socioeconomic Upbringing –
• The parents /friends / neighbours/ society live in poverty.
• Selfish Upbringing –
• The parents /friends / neighbours/ society do not spend money easily.
5. Past experience
• Being with Greedy Crowd –
• The parents /friends / neighbours/ society is obsessed with getting more and more
money either to store money in banks or to show others they are wealthy.
• There is Poor leadership, especially by mentors, senior people
• Violent Upbringing –
• The parents /friends / neighbours/ society is obsessed with getting more and more
money by violent means or person has suffered violence /abuses by others
6. Attitude / Personality Born with or Influenced during upbringing
• Inferiority Complex –
• The person has a feeling of low respect towards himself or feels that people are not
paying him enough respect. Believes that money will bring respect.
• Risk taking Behaviour –
• Do or die attitude. He wants to live life to the fullest now. Craves adrenaline high.
Believes in ‘no risk no reward’.
7. Attitude / Personality Born with or Influenced during upbringing
• Greed –
• Greedy for money at all costs
• Superiority Complex –
• Believes that he is the most intelligent person born to be great and so he deserves the money
that he gets by any means.
• There is a belief that they will not be caught and that even if caught, punishment will be light
• Revenge –
• Believes that it is the fault of others that he is not performing to his full potential / not happy
8. Thinking
• Inferiority complex –
• I have to get the money anyhow so that people will praise me and respect me
• Risk taking behaviour –
• It does not matter how I get the money as long as I win
9. Thinking
• Greedy –
• It does not matter how I get my money or how other people are affected as long as I
become rich
• Superiority complex –
• I am the most intelligent person born to be great and so I deserve the money that I get
by any means
• Revenge –
• I will show other people that I am better than them by getting more money
10. Levels of corruption
• High level corruption –
• The people at high levels of hierarchy indulge in corruption because
• He gets some part (cut) of the corrupt money of low level employees
• His tolerant attitude towards corruption helps to maintain loyalty among employees to their bosses,
• He can indulge in corruption at a higher level.
• Low level corruption • People at low levels of hierarchy indulge in corruption because
• They earn less
• The high levels of hierarchy get some part (cut) of the corrupt money
• They have permission to be corrupt so that government can pay them less income
11. Types of Corruption
• Soft corruption –
• The corruption exists for some people only, less money is involved and does not lead to
violence
• Hard corruption • The corruption exists for all people, is pervasive, has unofficial sanction in the society,
high amount of money is involved and may lead to violence
12. Vicious cycle of Corruption
• Activity – experience – peer support—activity
• The person indulges in corruption activity
• He gets a positive experience,
• He speaks about it to his peers, mentors, and gets positive feedback and support from
them
• So he indulges in more corruption activity
• He can utilise this money to earn more money by getting more people willing to work
for him and indulge in corruption.
• Finally it gets social sanction and acceptance. And people follow along the ‘agent’ route
to get things done quickly.
13. Thank You
• This is by no means an exhaustive description.
• If anybody feels that he has anything to add, he can do so.
