Ethical Leadership in South Africa and Botswana

Priviledge Cheteni and Emmanuel Shindika

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Abstract: This study was conducted to investigate the extent of ethical leadership practices in African public utilities, given the relatively high corruption reported in its institutions, with consequences of seriously constrained development of the national economy and significant hindrance to good governance. Our aim was to establish potential benefits from ethical leadership in public sector agencies, by analysing ethical leadership characteristics of leaders in the public sector from Botswana and South Africa. We measured ethical leadership perceptions utilizing a combination of scales in an attempt to encompass the larger breadth of ethical leadership scales in literature, to determine how employees perceived their managers in terms of being moral people and moral managers. A total of 108 respondents completed questionnaires. Results indicate that there were significant differences between the perceptions of managers’ moral conduct. South African leaders were perceived as relatively weaker moral managers as compared to those in Botswana.

Keywords: Africa; Corruption; Ethical Leadership Scale (ELS); Managers; Moral (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H7 M0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-08-09, Revised 2017-03-06
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Published in Brazilian Administration Review 2.14(2017): pp. 2-17

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