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e-Governance and Ethical Leadership

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Ethical code; Moral principles; Principals; Professional ethics; Value-system; Virtue

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The coming of e-governance transformed the way one would look at the ethics of leadership. The new technology was ready to take over most of the routine jobs of an executive, who would thereafter need more learning and knowledge to coordinate the emerging new networks of agencies, signing contracts for collaborations, partnerships, and outsourcing services. The administrative offices would now be occupied with nongovernment consultants, firms, and service providers and every transaction would demand from administrators much more transparency, accountability, efficiency, and speed. The new priorities of ethical leadership which substitute the conventional principles of Weber’s hierarchy, written rules, impersonality, and neutrality are transparency, accountability, efficiency, speed, and rule of law. Since the new technology is capital intensive and it also deals with online...

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Singh, A. (2018). e-Governance and Ethical Leadership. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_2342-1

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