Public Administration and Governance in Democratic South Africa
There is a national emergency, and it has become more pronounced as South Africa faces challenges of Ethical leadership in both the private and public sector. Recently the Zondo Commission, Public Investment Corporation (PIC) Commission and Courts of Law released reports that cast light on the conduct of public officials. There have also been several reports by the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) dealing with the same matter. This phenomenon is not only unique to South Africa. Reports of multinational companies that have been implicated in unethical and corrupt abound. These include corporate scandals such as those of Enron, WorldCom, Nortel, and AIG. These malfeasances have demonstrated abundantly that corporate leaders are not immune to unethical behaviour (Bedi, Alpasla & Green, 2015; Naidoo, 2012a). What this showed is that the issue of ethics is important in the public sector.
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Foreword
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Introduction
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1. Improving governance in the public sector: can ethics be taught?
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2. The battle of ethical leadership and political power in South Africa
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3. Corruption and economic growth in the emerging markets: empirical evidence from heterogenous dynamic panel data
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4. Whistleblowing in South Africa: a vulnerable watchdog
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5. Audit outcomes and the state of service delivery as indicators of the quality of governancethe case of Nelson Mandela metropolitan municipality
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6. Innovative recruitment and selection processes: a key factor for leveraging public sector performance with reference to Eastern Cape Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
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7. Transformational leadership and employee attitudes in a public sector context: the role of trust in management and employee core self-evaluation
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8. Leadership as governance practice in post-colonial Africapost- independence flaws, formative theoretical faultlines, and the need for ‘African Wisdom’
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9. The effects of the mass media on municipal governance: review of literature and a case study
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10. The role of the youth in socio-economic development
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11. South Africa’s national development plan vision 2030the context of entrepreneurship and small businesses since 1994
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12. The fourth industrial revolution and government of the futurea case of South African Social Security Agency during the covid-19 pandemic
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13. Curriculum reforms in the scholarship of public administration
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