Africa-Press – Malawi. The Malawi Catholic bishops have torn apart the President Lazarus Chakwera’s Tonse Alliance administration
Leadership
Bad leadership in government leads to toxic working environment, loss of high-performing employees, and an unattractive workplace culture that is unlikely to inspire results from employees while creating a cycle of poor staff retention.
Leadership failure in Tonse is caused by many factors including the President’s lack of experience, poor communication skills, and conflicts with other leaders within the alliance itself. Leaders need to put their best foot forward at all times so they do not risk losing the respect of those around them or disappointing the electorate.
There are many signs of bad leadership in Tonse Alliance Government which include passive aggressive communication, failure to own up to mistakes, not listening to concerns of Malawians, or creating an intimidating environment for human rights activists and journalists for reporting government corruption stories taking place.
Power Imbalances
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) or a group of MCP gurus) is dominating decision- making or otherwise asserting power in ways that disadvantages other partners. They are not in the best interest towards achieving the alliance partnership objectives.
Malawians are complaining aggressively about the poor services received from government. They are complaining about campaign promises not being met. The campaign promises appear to be lies so far as there is nothing new happening on the ground. Hospitals do not have drugs and people are dying of curable diseases.
Minister of information, Gospel Kazako is verbally eloquent busy defending government, day in day out for doing absolutely nothing. Nepotism, social exclusion, and secret from government are some factors that are influencing power imbalance, while awarding of contracts to friends and relatives, thereby promoting nepotism and corruption much further than where it was.
Leadership in government at the present moment is simply very bad
Unemployment is a cause of macroeconomic imbalance in Malawi. The mainly has limited to low employment rates because of corruption, government over expenditure and the unwillingness to learn good lessons from the neighboring countries.
Fostering a lack of transparency
Transparency is a fundamental element of abolishing corruption. Transparent governance is important to local governments and the communities they serve.
Openness will strengthen our democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness in Government. Government should be transparent. Transparency promotes accountability and provides information for citizens about what their Government is doing. Information maintained by the Government is a national asset.
Transparency is a fundamental component of democratic government and addresses the rights of citizens to know about activities of their government. Too much secrecy in government often leads to an abuse of power and a lack of accountability.
There are a variety of different ways this can be achieved – proactive communication with citizens, town hall meetings, making public meeting documents easily accessible, soliciting citizen feedback, and convenient services offered through digital channels.
Transparency means that decisions taken and their enforcement are done in a manner that follows rules and regulations. It also means that information is freely available and directly accessible to those who will be affected by such decisions and their enforcement.
The President being unavailable
Sometimes you feel inclined to pro-actively manage your President and his Vice. Other times, however, you might feel drawn into managing them for another reason. For example, Malawians have lived with a President who is meaninglessly unavailable. By unavailable, I mean they don’t check on Malawians. They don’t blast the cabinet with anything to keep them in the loop. They don’t keep their door open, and so on. In short, they’re closed instead of open and interactive.
Think back over the last two years. If you’re seeing a lot of unanswered complaints, unanswered protest messages, missed campaign promises, and unexplained absences from the office, you’re dealing with an unavailable President.
This style is, of course, not good. So, why would someone adopt it? There are three main reasons. The first is personality. The second is that the leadership doesn’t like Malawians. The government of Malawi and the people of Malawi don’t have good chemistry. And third, it’s possible they’re dealing with a crisis, whether personal or for the people of Malawi.
Working with a less competent President
You would think that your President would be more experienced and skilled than his Vice and cabinet? Well, most of the time that’s true, but this government is different and inexperienced. And presently, Malawians will be led by a President they deem as somehow lacking in competence.
Believe it or not, this is happening a few different ways. The first is the thank you principle . That’s the idea that Chakwera promotes people into management positions based on their party, presidential court case or protests allegiance in their current role instead of promoting them based on the possession of skills that are clearly needed at the next level. Thus, they rise to their level of incompetence.
It’s also true sometimes that the best explanation is simply that the person was a political appointee or is good friends with someone in power. Thus, they’re benefitting from favoritism or some other form of non-meritorious behavior. Finally, one of the other fairly common explanations is that they’re working in a low performance culture.
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