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

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.