Pathologies affect various areas of management, although they are the most visible in the area of human resources management. All solutions that serve the prevention of the occurrence of organisational pathology are justified only in the situation of a successful implementation and internalisation of ethical solutions in organisations. It should be accompanied by disintermediation and despatialisation of information, as well as the coordination of preventive actions, counteracting the reduction of the overall effect of the actions taken. It requires taking into account and counteracting negative consequences of public organisations’ coopetition. The study identified and formulated the following research problems: what are the reasons of the failure to ratify the civil law convention on corruption by all its parties, and how does it impact the effectiveness of corruption prevention? To what extent the phenomenon of coopetition in the public sector impacts the effectiveness of the anti-corruption programme?