Does Ethical Guidance Improve the Performance of Organizations? Reflections From Tanzanian Health Centers

Abstract

Effective employee performance is important for
health centers in delivering health services to the
communities. One of the factors to be considered
in improving performance is ethical leadership
behavior. There has been a growing concern
about unethical behaviour in Tanzania
specifically on health care. The most common
unethical practices are petty corruption, theft of
medicine for sale, favoritism, and bribery. This
study aimed to determine whether employees of
health centers were guided on ethical behavior
and determine the influence of ethical guidance
on the performance of employees of health
centers in Morogoro municipal council,
Tanzania. A cross-sectional research design was
adopted. The study sample size was 72, drawn
from a target population of employees of five
health centers. Purposive and random sampling
approaches were utilized in the sampling
process. A structured questionnaire was used as
a data collection technique. Descriptive and
regression analysis were used to analyze the
quantitative data. The findings revealed that
ethical guidance had a significant effect on the
performance of employees of health centers in
Morogoro municipality.