Corruption in sub‐Saharan Africa: A phenomenological study

Odemba, Alexander S.

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“…The impact of ethical practices on the procurement process can equally be massive on the economy of any country. This is because corrupt activities affect economic growth and countries with high corruption rates tend to grow more slowly (Odemba, 2011). This addresses key principles in the Public Procurement Act for equality, fairness and best value for money as spelled out under Section 43 of the PPA, 2011.…”

Section: Ethics and Fair Dealingsmentioning

confidence: 98%

Determinants of Ethical Procurement Practices in Public Entities in Tanzania: A Case Study of the National Audit Office (NAO) Headquarters, Dar Es Salaam

Lema¹,

Mrope²

2018

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Introduction Public procurement is a key economic activity of governments that represents a significant percentage of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) generating huge financial flows, estimated on average at 10-15% of GDP across the world (Zhou, 2012). Thus, an effective procurement system plays a strategic role in governments for avoiding mismanagement and waste of public funds. Organization globally views that establishment of a regulatory body and comprehensive, transparent legal and institutional framework in procurement activities as one among the most important activities guarantees transparency and accountability in the use of public funds (Prier and McCue, 2006). Empirical literature over years have already shown that implementation of procurement ethical practices lead to higher organization performance both in developed and developing countries; which could then trickle down in terms of better organization success through minimizing corruption and other unethical practices in procurement process (John et al., 2010; & Banihashemi, 2011). To achieve that Odhiambo, (2012) argued that public procurement has important economic and political implications, and ensuring that the process is economical and efficient is crucial. This requires in part that the whole procurement process should be well understood by the actors; government, the procuring entities and the business community or suppliers and other stakeholders, including professional associations, academic entities and the general public. Some proponents give more emphasis to the importance procurement ethical practices and apprenticeships towards achieving the obligation of providing goods, works and services to meet a variety of citizen needs in developing. Achuora et al., (2011) concurred that public procurement regulation is one of the most important factors in carrying out effective public procurement audit. Consequently, there has been a debate among researchers in both developing and

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Section: Ethics and Fair Dealingsmentioning

confidence: 98%

Determinants of Ethical Procurement Practices in Public Entities in Tanzania: A Case Study of the National Audit Office (NAO) Headquarters, Dar Es Salaam

Lema¹,

Mrope²

2018

ijird

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“…Results could spur additional research on corruption from other theoretical perspectives in criminology and criminal justice. Furthermore, the current endeavor can prompt a reevaluation of programs and laws that address corruption in the light of ongoing revelations of widespread corruption in Nigeria (Aderonmu, 2011;Aluko, 2002;Dike, 2002;Odemba, 2010).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Although in many African countries, including Nigeria, corruption is outlawed (Odemba, 2010), it is nonetheless embedded in society (Anassi, 2004). Obasanjo (2014) noted that corruption remain a major bane of the Nigeria society and despite the fact that it is present in every societies, attempts should be made not to condone it as it carries with it the threat to annihilate a country that is ingrained with corruption.…”

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Corruption in Nigeria: Theoretical Explanation

Karimu

2016

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The purpose of the current study is to explain corruption from social learning and social disorganization perspectives. The study utilized survey design, participants were selected through convenience sampling and two thousand and fifty six respondents participated in the study. Descriptive statistics such as mean, median, frequency tables and percentages were adopted to analyze the data collected from the field. Both male and female participants, irrespective of their religion perceived that changes in cultural values have increased corruption in Nigeria. Majority of the participants noted that corruption as a behaviour is learned. The findings indicate that social learning and social disorganization theories are relevant in explaining incidents of corrupt practices in Nigeria.

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“…Many political leaders and managers of productive sectors of many private and public workplaces are highly trained; possess high capacity and capabilities as well as intellectual skill sets and prowess to handle challenges of their work demands that will put the best foot of the continent forward. However, certain extraneous factors such as corruption, highhandedness, dictatorial rule, luxurious living, fraudulent self-preservation and lack of transparency have been attributed to the somewhat abysmal performance (Amadi & Ekekwe, 2014;Mlambo, Mubecua, Mpanza & Mlambo, 2019;Odemba, 2012).…”

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Self-Destructive Work Behavior Management for Socio-Economic Emancipation: A Classic Case of Saving One from Oneself

Ugwuzor

2021

JEBS

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Africa is amply endowed with diverse dimensions of resources as well as having a rich cultural heritage with great potentials for economic growth and development. It is also worthy of mention that the resourceful capacities of Africans in the diaspora in all spheres of life have contributed immensely to the development of other continents of the world. Despite these great progressive potentials, a large percentage of African States are in obvious and dire need of sustainable socio-economic emancipation. This glaring need to identify the key challenges and propose solutions necessitated this study. This study is conceptual and examined self-destructive behaviors at multiple levels using theoretical underpinnings from the Human survival and the self-destruction paradox as well as the dialectical behavioral therapy. This Paper identified several ingrained sources of self-destructive work behaviors in contemporary public sector workplaces in Africa which contribute to the socio-economic challenges. This work highlights that these obnoxious, self–destructive work behaviors seem highly inimical to management praxis. The behaviors seem capable of contending against the aggregate fight for sustainable socio-economic emancipation of the Continent. Deliberate self-salvation was opined here to steer away behaviors, especially in workplaces, from this current path of self-destruction. Novel Actionable thoughts were suggested to stem this unfavorable tide and push for a generation of operational work behaviors as well as an ethical renaissance in management praxis for the emergence of archetypes completely devoid of any anti-progress tendencies.

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Corruption in sub‐Saharan Africa: A phenomenological study

Cited by 3 publications

References 20 publications

Determinants of Ethical Procurement Practices in Public Entities in Tanzania: A Case Study of the National Audit Office (NAO) Headquarters, Dar Es Salaam

Determinants of Ethical Procurement Practices in Public Entities in Tanzania: A Case Study of the National Audit Office (NAO) Headquarters, Dar Es Salaam

Corruption in Nigeria: Theoretical Explanation

Self-Destructive Work Behavior Management for Socio-Economic Emancipation: A Classic Case of Saving One from Oneself

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