Full Description
This book is an excellent resource for academics and students interested in ethics and accountability in the public sector, as well as for practitioners, NGO workers and policymakers. Over the last decades, issues in ethical leadership have become central to the global call for higher moral standards on the part of corporate organisations and their leaders and managers. The book's chapters investigate these concerns in Africa, where governance gaps often reflect poor leadership. Parenthetically, in 2001, a UNDP report found difficulties in applying anti-corruption laws and managing public institutions in the continent. Twenty years on, significant efforts have been made to improve the situation, yet extensive challenges still subsist. In this first volume, contributors discuss the practice of ethics, anti-corruption, and performance management, and propose solutions, some general to the continent and others country-specific.
Contents
Part 1: Ethics and Ethical Compliance.- Chapter 1:1 Ethics and Accountable Governance in Africa: An Introduction (Kemi Ogunyemi, Isaiah Adisa, and Robert E. Hinson).- Chapter 2:Ethical Dilemmas and the Changing Reality in Africa's Public Sector (Nkemdilim Iheanachor and Emmanuel Etim).- Chapter 3: Conflict of Interest in Public Sector Organisations in Africa: Reflections on the Ghanaian, South-African and Kenyan Situation (Isaac Sewornu Coffie and Robert E. Hinson).- Chapter 4:The Subversion of the South African Public Accountability Ethics Codes of Conduct in the Name of Disaster Management During COVID-19 Pandemic (Mpfareleni Mavis Netswera and Fulufhelo Netswera).- Chapter 5:'Thuma Mina' as a New Ethic of Public Service Accountability in South Africa (Khali Mofuoa).- Part 2: Governance and Public Sector Performance.- Chapter 6: African Ethics and Public Governance: Nepotism, Preferential Hiring, and Other Partiality (Thaddeus Metz).- Chapter 7: Anti-corruption Initiatives in Africa's Public Sector (Samuel Wenyah).- Chapter 8: Public Service Performance Management (Arinze Nwokolo).- Chapter 9: Leveraging Public Service Performance Management to Enhance Public Service Delivery: A Contemporary Perspective (Desmond Tutu Ayentimi).- Chapter 10: Accountable Governance and Ethical Practice in Africa's Public Sector: Mapping a Path for the Future (Kemi Ogunyemi, Isaiah Adisa, and Robert E. Hinson).
