scholarly journals Ethical Practices and Organizational Performance: Understanding Linkages from Deposit-Taking SACCOs in Kenya

2021 ◽  
Vol 08 (08) ◽  
pp. 47-54
Author(s):  
Jackline Akoth Odero
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Ethical Practices

scholarly journals Servant Leadership and Enhancement of Organizational Performance

2019 ◽  
Vol IV (I) ◽  
pp. 117-122
Author(s):  
Muhammad Hashim ◽  
Muhammad Azizullah Khan ◽  
Saqib Adnan
Keyword(s):  
Servant Leadership ◽  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Leader Behavior ◽  
Servant Leader ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Ethical Practices ◽  
Emotional Healing ◽  
Teaching Faculty ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Relationship

The Servant Leader Model is a theory that advances administration, supports trust, coordinates effort, future-arranges and utilizes moral capacity to engage others, focusing on good ethical practices. This study inspects the faculty of public and private universities in Peshawar for elements of servant leader behavior (wisdom, emotional healing and persuasive mapping) and effect on performance. Drawing on information from 95 teaching faculty members from different universities, we discovered help for the immediate impact of the all elements of servant leader behavior administration on universities performance. The findings add to servant leadership practices, in like manner to values-based administration, which conceivably may include novel literature regarding the relationship between servant leadership and performance of universities teachers. Implications form the last part of the paper.

scholarly journals Determinants of Unethical Behavior by Stakeholders in the Medical Insurance Industry in Zimbabwe: An African Humanism (Hunhu/Ubuntu) Approach

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 63
Author(s):  
Sifile Obert ◽  
Zimbiti Phillip Okay ◽  
Chavunduka Desderio
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Insurance Industry ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
Medical Insurance ◽  
Insurance Companies ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Risky Behaviour ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Ethical Practices ◽  
Qualitative Methodologies

There is a continuous decline in the performance of medical insurance companies in Zimbabwe resulting in these companies failing to meet their obligations to stakeholders as seen by failure to pay wages, policy holders’ medical bills and dividends to shareholders. While research shows <em>Hunhu/Ubuntu </em>as a requirement for ethical practices that bring about good business and moral practices, it does not show how <em>Hunhu/Ubuntu </em>influences stakeholders, employee behaviour and organizational performance. Due to this glaring gap, the study was designed to investigate: the causes of unethical behaviour in the medical insurance industry, the attributes of African Humanism and how it influences people’s behaviour in medical insurance firms. A case study research design was used where both quantitative and qualitative methodologies were employed. Closed and open-ended questionnaires, semi-structured interviews and focus group discussions were conducted. Chi-square tests were used for data analysis. Findings of the study show that <em>Hunhu/Ubuntu</em> moulds good behaviour and is essential for avoiding risky behaviour which curtails organizational performance<strong>.</strong>

scholarly journals Strategic Leadership and Organizational Performance of Directorate of Criminal Investigations in Nairobi County, Kenya

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (V) ◽  
pp. 166-185
Author(s):  
Eswari Njoki Bose ◽  
Priscillah Ndegwa
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Corporate Culture ◽  
Strategic Change ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Leadership Theory ◽  
Strategic Leadership ◽  
Management Competencies ◽  
Total Study Population ◽  
Ethical Practices ◽  
Criminal Investigations

Performance of an organization relies on the strategic moves and direction that it makes. For all strategies formulated to work, the leadership itself must be strategic. The security sector in Kenya has been faced with a myriad of challenges ranging from low public confidence, poor leadership, incompetence, poor housing and other facilities, limited funding and above all poor strategy formulation and implementation. Strategic leadership is the leader's ability to anticipate, envision, maintain flexibility, and empower others to create strategic change as necessary. This general objective of this study was to establish the influence of strategic leadership on the organizational performance of the Directorate of Criminal Investigations in Nairobi City County, Kenya. The specific objectives of this study were to establish the influence of management competencies on organizational performance of the DCI, to examine the effect of corporate culture on organizational performance of the DCI, to establish the influence of shareholder involvement on organizational performance of the DCI and to determine the effect of ethical practices on performance of the DCI. The study was anchored on trait leadership theory, path-goal leadership theory and the transformation leadership theory. The study used descriptive research design. The target population of this study comprised the senior officers from the 10 units in the DCI in Nairobi City County who total to 141. Stratified random sampling was used to select the sample size of 42 which is 30 percent of the total study population. The study used both primary and secondary data. Primary data was collected using a semi structured questionnaire to be administered to the officers through drop and pick later method. Secondary data was obtained from the DCI strategic plans, records, annual reports and human resource data base. Data collected was analysed through descriptive and inferential statistics by the use of SPSS. Findings were presented by use of tables, frequencies, percentages, means and standard deviation. The study found that given the significance of significance of the variance (p-Value < 0.05) and F-Value is 44.283 and further supported by R-Square = 0.76, it was concluded that management competencies, corporate culture, stakeholder involvement, and ethical practices are all essential strategic leadership aspect that require complete adoption if performance of an organization has to improve to the desired level. Of particular importance to achieve this performance include professional trainings, staff capacity building, possession of exemplary skills and ability, service without fear or favour, and believing in delivery of quality service. The findings of the study will be useful to the security organs in the National Police Service and other security organs within the Republic of Kenya.

scholarly journals STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP AND SERVICE DELIVERY IN ORGANIZATIONS: A CRITICAL REVIEW OF LITERATURE

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vitalis Ragul
Keyword(s):  
Service Delivery ◽  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Review Literature ◽  
Strategic Leadership ◽  
Success Factor ◽  
Ethical Practices ◽  
Public And Private Sector

Strategic leaders need to be certain about what they want to achieve for the organization. Efficient and effective leaders develop strategies and structures that are clear and work with employees that adhere to good ethical practices that enable the organizations to achieve set goals. Strategic leadership is important to all organizations, whether in public and private sector, albeit in different contexts. This paper sought to critically review literature on the link between strategic leadership and service delivery in organizations. Several theories were reviewed, namely upper echelons perspective, strategic leadership theory, principal agency theory and new public management theory. A conceptual framework was developed to provide the basis of the identified theories with a view to explaining and predicting the variables through definition of the contents and attributes of those theories. Strategic leadership was conceptualized as the independent variable while service delivery in organizations was hypothesized as the dependent variable. Conceptual and empirical studies were undertaken to examine the existing literature in strategic leadership as well as service delivery. Arising from the review, several knowledge gaps were identified. The study established that strategic leadership is applicable to all organizations with an increasing number of organizations continually embracing it upon realizing that it is a key success factor in organizational performance and therefore in the delivery of service for the benefit of the public.

Quota Women Are Threatening to Men

2017 ◽  
Vol 76 (3) ◽  
pp. 107-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Klea Faniko ◽  
Till Burckhardt ◽  
Oriane Sarrasin ◽  
Fabio Lorenzi-Cioldi ◽  
Siri Øyslebø Sørensen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
Perceived Threat ◽  
Preferential Treatment ◽  
Public Sector Employees ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
Women In Decision Making ◽  
The Impact

Abstract. Two studies carried out among Albanian public-sector employees examined the impact of different types of affirmative action policies (AAPs) on (counter)stereotypical perceptions of women in decision-making positions. Study 1 (N = 178) revealed that participants – especially women – perceived women in decision-making positions as more masculine (i.e., agentic) than feminine (i.e., communal). Study 2 (N = 239) showed that different types of AA had different effects on the attribution of gender stereotypes to AAP beneficiaries: Women benefiting from a quota policy were perceived as being more communal than agentic, while those benefiting from weak preferential treatment were perceived as being more agentic than communal. Furthermore, we examined how the belief that AAPs threaten men’s access to decision-making positions influenced the attribution of these traits to AAP beneficiaries. The results showed that men who reported high levels of perceived threat, as compared to men who reported low levels of perceived threat, attributed more communal than agentic traits to the beneficiaries of quotas. These findings suggest that AAPs may have created a backlash against its beneficiaries by emphasizing gender-stereotypical or counterstereotypical traits. Thus, the framing of AAPs, for instance, as a matter of enhancing organizational performance, in the process of policy making and implementation, may be a crucial tool to countering potential backlash.

Ethical practices and standards

1964 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. J. Bonham
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Practices
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