- Title
- Ethical leadership by the senior managers within the South African Police Services in Grahamstown cluster
- Creator
- Mafele, Khayakazi Innocentia
- Subject
- South African Police Service
- Subject
- Management -- Moral and ethical aspects
- Date
- 2020-10
- Type
- Master's theses
- Type
- text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10353/19870
- Identifier
- vital:43604
- Description
- SAPS has an organisational form of ethics that guides the police officials’ behaviour which is SAPS code of conduct and all SAPS members are expected to adhere to this code of conduct. The code of conduct provides that “each of the SAPS members is bound to create a safe and secure environment for all the citizens of the Republic of South Africa” (SAPS code of conduct). Ethical leadership is becoming more relevant; ethical leadership is an idea that appears to be uncertain and includes many diverse elements. The literature proposes that ethical leadership should be perceived as a view that is enabling people to do the right thing more than preventing people from doing the wrong thing. Current SAPS leadership must be able to make sure that SAPS become the professional and respected police agency to the citizens of the Republic of South Africa. This study sought to investigate the use of ethical leadership by the senior managers within the South African Police Service in the Grahamstown cluster. The study also investigated some of the various causes of corrupt practices among senior managers which resulted in the unethical behaviour in the South African Police Service. In this study, the purposive sampling technique was used to choose the participants and the following participants were interviewed: One Colonel as a cluster commander, two full Colonels as station commanders, two Lt Colonels and two Captains from Grahamstown and Joza stations. The study made the following recommendation: Senior officials at SAPS need to go through a capacity building programme so as to assist them to deal with challenges of ethics. It is very important to increase the detection of and punishment of corrupt acts in order to deter all officers from engaging in corrupt acts. Accountability is needed by senior officials and therefore the Independent Investigation Directorate (IPID) needs to be given more constitutional powers to be able to investigate the police in South Africa in order to make disciplinary recommendations in respect of members of the SAPS resulting from investigations conducted by the directorate. The enforcement of disciplinary procedures as guided by the code of conduct should be promoted and sustained.
- Description
- Thesis (MPA) -- Faculty of Management and Commerce, 2021
- Format
- computer
- Format
- online resource
- Format
- application/pdf
- Format
- 1 online resource (112 pages)
- Format
- Publisher
- University of Fort Hare
- Publisher
- Faculty of Management and Commerce
- Language
- English
- Rights
- University of Fort Hare
- Rights
- All Rights Reserved
- Rights
- Open Access
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