{"id":173091,"date":"2015-12-10T06:00:06","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T06:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=173091"},"modified":"2015-12-10T06:01:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T06:01:00","slug":"poor-ethic-workplace-stealing-stifling-development-prof-adei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=173091","title":{"rendered":"Poor ethic, workplace stealing stifling development &#8211; Prof Adei"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A former rector of the\u00a0Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), Professor Steven Adei,\u00a0has bemoaned the poor work attitude of most Ghanaians blaming such\u00a0behaviors \u00a0largely on &#8220;our culture&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prof. Adei, speaking on \u201cTime with legends\u201d segment of\u00a0the <strong>Citi Breakfast Show<\/strong>, said the typical Ghanaian apathy towards work must change to help transform the nation both in private and public work.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;k8QEnYwNHZfS0sjjZgvFD3tELBUZrsl1&#8243;]He noted that the\u00a0lackadaisical work ethic on the part of workers and a \u201clegendary\u201d stealing culture at the workplace,\u00a0is detrimental to national\u00a0development, adding that \u201cit is the responsibility of leadership to change culture\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He wondered why those seeking to be Parliamentarians would have to spend about Ghc20,000 to achieve their aim when their monthly salary is around 8,000 cedis, blaming this on a negative culture that needs to change.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to him, overcoming the Ghanaian culture that seems to promote corruption is vital to the fight against the canker, adding it lies on leadership to effect the needed change.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cOur culture demands you do wrong, and any leader who would not confront their culture is not going to be able to transform the company or the society or the county.\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former rector of the\u00a0Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), Professor Steven Adei,\u00a0has bemoaned the poor work attitude of most Ghanaians blaming such\u00a0behaviors \u00a0largely on &#8220;our culture&#8221;. Prof. Adei, speaking on \u201cTime with legends\u201d segment of\u00a0the Citi Breakfast Show, said the typical Ghanaian apathy towards work must change to help transform the nation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":84,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-173091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=173091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/84"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=173091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=173091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}