Analysis of Ethical Leadership and Integrity Development in Local Government: The United States, The Netherlands, Montenegro, and Serbia

Erakovich, Rod; Kolthoff, Emile

doi:10.1080/01900692.2015.1053612

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“…Regional and local governments play a particular role in shaping electronic administration as the electronic economy develops dynamically. Local government administration provides public services and is, therefore, familiar with local problems and needs of residents (Erakovich and Kolthoff 2016;Bertot et al 2016). They serve an essential role in the development of electronic administration.…”

Section: E-administrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Local Government Website Accessibility—Evidence from Poland

Król

Zdonek

2020

Administrative Sciences

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The paper investigates the accessibility of local government websites. It focuses in particular on disability, e-administration, and web accessibility standards for the visually impaired. The research involved 182 websites of local government bodies of the Małopolskie Voivodeship (Poland). It employed selected automated testing applications. The occurrence of selected accessibility tools on the websites was verified with a cognitive walkthrough. A questionnaire survey was conducted as well. Results of the automatic measurements were standardized using the unitarization method. The effort yielded an aggregate final score for each website in the form of the AAR (Aggregate Accessibility Rating). It was used to build a ranking list of the websites and order them by the accessibility criterion. The websites achieved 57.23% of the available AAR points in total. This indicates there is a great opportunity for improvement in the accessibility of the investigated websites (in the employed research design). Moreover, municipalities were found to be heavily committed to the questionnaire survey, which is indicative of the importance and relevance of the problem of accessibility and quality of public websites.

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Section: E-administrationmentioning

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Local Government Website Accessibility—Evidence from Poland

Król

Zdonek

2020

Administrative Sciences

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“…The notion that integrity is essential for moral and effective leadership is widely held (Crossan et al, 2012;Erakovich & Kolthoff, 2016;Gentry, Cullen, Sosik, Chun, Leupold & Tonidandel, 2013;Palanski & Yammarino, 2011). Transformational leadership (Bass & Steidlmeier, 1999), ethical leadership (Brown & Treviño, 2006), spiritual leadership (Fry, 2003) and authentic leadership (Avolio & Gardner, 2005;Walumbwa et al, 2008) all include integrity as a core element of effective leadership.…”

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“…Attributions of moral character and integrity are thus largely perception-based (McCann & Holt, 2013;Peng & Wei, 2018). For this article, 'integrity' was operationalised as not compromising on the values of honesty, respect, fairness, and trust, notwithstanding adversity, and trustworthiness (Bauman, 2013;Erakovich & Kolthoff, 2016;Moorman, Darnold & Priesemuth, 2013). From these discussions, the first research proposition is constructed:…”

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Contribution of integrity and vulnerability to perceived moral character and a leader’s behavioural profile attractiveness

Prinsloo¹,

Klerk

2020

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Integrity is often regarded as cardinal to moral character and a desirable leadership attribute. However, integrity that is not moderated through an adjunctive virtue such as vulnerability can produce leaders who are stubborn or self-righteous. Through a vignette experiment, the contribution of integrity and vulnerability towards the perception of moral character and the attractiveness of a leader's behavioural profile were explored. Results confirm that integrity contributes even more strongly to both perceived moral character and attractiveness of a leader's behavioural profile when combined with vulnerability. The findings provide new insights into integrity and vulnerability as adjunctive virtues and building blocks of perceived moral character and ethical leadership attractiveness.

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“…The importance of implementing enforcement integrity is often the topic of discussion in developed countries (Erakovich & Kolthoff, 2016; Jiménez, García-Quesada, & Villoria, 2014). Thus, the study argued that it should also be given serious attention in developing countries such as Malaysia being in progress to become a developed country.…”

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“…Jiménez, García-Quesada, and Villoria (2014) who underlie the ethical management from the viewpoint of the local integrity system usage found that the area and community differences in a place provide different value and valuation of integrity. However, overall, the community still assumes that corruption is the foundation that destroys integrity (Erakovich & Kolthoff, 2016).…”

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Examining the integrity behavior challenges of enforcement officers in Malaysian local government

Rasli

Manaf

Ismail

2020

Problems and Perspectives in Management

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There is a call from society to examine the integrity behavior challenges of local government (LG) enforcement officers who work directly with citizens due to the nature of this job. One of the job requirements of enforcement officers is to investigate law enforcement directly to their customers, such as petty traders, hawkers, business owners, developers and contractors, and others. In executing their duties, particularly on law enforcement, high integrity behavior and professionalism of enforcement officers in LG administrative areas of responsibility are necessary. Based on the framework, the study aims to examine the integrity behavior challenges of enforcement officers from the citizens’ and staff’ perspectives, in particular, on to what extent the officers face the difficulties and challenges in executing their enforcement tasks. Thus, during the study, 30 respondents, namely the citizens and LG staff in Kedah, were surveyed. The data were analyzed using thematic analysis to gain specific dimensions related to integrity behavior. From the citizens’ perspective on LG enforcement teams’ integrity behavior, challenges were related to main aspects such as biasness, political intervention, and bureaucracy matters. Meanwhile, LG staff consider integrity behavior challenges to be affected by opportunistic attitudes among staff, workforce, and financial issues. The study suggests that enforcement officers should develop soft skills, employability skills, and upgrade academic levels to understand the current situation and develop negotiation skills to deal with grassroots society.

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Analysis of Ethical Leadership and Integrity Development in Local Government: The United States, The Netherlands, Montenegro, and Serbia

Cited by 12 publications

References 24 publications

Local Government Website Accessibility—Evidence from Poland

Local Government Website Accessibility—Evidence from Poland

Contribution of integrity and vulnerability to perceived moral character and a leader’s behavioural profile attractiveness

Examining the integrity behavior challenges of enforcement officers in Malaysian local government

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