Subject category:
Ethics and Social Responsibility
Published by:
Harvard Kennedy School
Length: 4 pages
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Abstract
This case is set in Zimbabwe and focuses on an education and training cooperative aimed at improving rural agriculture in the wake of the end of that country''s civil war in 1981. The organization becomes successful and influential under a dynamic leader who announces his resignation in 1985. It then must decide whether to hire a successor who appears to be well qualified but comes not from Zimbabwe but from Kenya. Ultimately, it does so and regrets the decision for reasons that raise both ethics and management questions. This case was developed by the Public and Development Management Program of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
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Abstract
This case is set in Zimbabwe and focuses on an education and training cooperative aimed at improving rural agriculture in the wake of the end of that country''s civil war in 1981. The organization becomes successful and influential under a dynamic leader who announces his resignation in 1985. It then must decide whether to hire a successor who appears to be well qualified but comes not from Zimbabwe but from Kenya. Ultimately, it does so and regrets the decision for reasons that raise both ethics and management questions. This case was developed by the Public and Development Management Program of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.