Abstract
The main objective of this research paper was to examine the extent to which Servant Leadership Philosophy (SLP) relates to the Public Leadership Code of Ethics Act (PLCEA) of 1995 and other established ideals for public leaders in Tanzania. A total of 278 respondents: 109 Members of the Parliament (MPs), 90 Respondents from General Public (RGPs) and 79 key informants selected from different constituencies and localities across the country using a non-probability approach of snowball sampling were involved. Both qualitative and quantitative methods of data collection and analysis were employed. The primary and secondary data were collected through questionnaires, interviews, observations and documentary review. The key research findings revealed that that SLP relates a little bit to PLCEA and other established ideals for public leaders in Tanzania for they both have ethical characteristics intending to set controls over public leaders. A number of difference were established during the study to justify why they were a little bit related. The major difference based on the premises that the philosophy of servant leadership seems to embody socialistic and spiritual characteristics with a major focus on elevating followers to the same status of the leader while PLCEA and other established ideals are mainly based on a legal compliance approach. The other established differences basically focused on personal qualities of a leader in each category. Thus, the study recommends, among other things, enhancing PLCEA and other established ideals for public leaders by adopting the principles of SLP; training public leaders on SLP and including SLP in school curricula topics with a view of grooming patriotic and ethical leaders of the next generation.
Highlights
Public leadership, as a discipline, has been over the years, receiving more intellectual attention accross the world associated with a mushrooming of contemporary theories and models to explain its nature, essence and the way it has been evolving to meet the ever-changing needs of the human being
The analysis revealed that 58(73.42%) key informants out of 79(100%) participated in the study were of the views that SLP and Public Leadership Code of Ethics Act (PLCEA) and other established ideals for public leaders were ‘a little bit related’
This research paper examined the extent to which servant leadership philosophy relates to PLCEA and other established ideals
Summary
As a discipline, has been over the years, receiving more intellectual attention accross the world associated with a mushrooming of contemporary theories and models to explain its nature, essence and the way it has been evolving to meet the ever-changing needs of the human being. The classical struggle for designing the state emerged during the enlightenment age in the 17th Century in Europe is said to have an important contribution on defining public leadership and the role of the state. Northouse [1] contends that Locke being one of the great philosophers during the enlightenment age, made a major contribution through his most famous work of the Two Treatises on Goverment. The work was published in 1689 and it essentially helped to define the role of the state to its people emphasizing that the government through its public leaders (acumen) has moral obligations and responsibilities of protecting the natural rights of the people they govern in terms of life, liberty and their properties. It is widely believed that Locke’s ideas influenced Thomas Jefferson more than anything else in writing the US Declaration of Independence in 1776, and later on towards revolutions made in France of 1789 and many other places in the world in the 19th Century
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