Volume : 7, Issue : 5, May - 2018

LOGIT MODELLING AND ANALYSIS OF LEADERSHIP BEHAVIOUR IN URBAN GOVERNANCE

Josiah Solomon. N, Celine Rani. A, Sivapragasam. C

Abstract :

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:&#10;none;punctuation-wrap:simple;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;&#10;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:&#10;Calii;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Leadershipis a function of the input an individual can make into the system&rsquo;s capacity for concerted action. The intent of this paper is to present a logit model of leadership behavior in urban local governance and to identify factors associated with the leadership behaviour being ethical or not. The data was obtained on a three-stage random sample of 502 citizens </span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;&#10;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">in </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;&#10;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:&#10;Calii;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">the state of West Bengal in India. A structured interview schedule taking into account the citizen&rsquo;s assessment of the leadership behavior towards service delivery in urban governance was used in the study. I</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;&#10;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">t is observed that six factors including <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Integrity and trustworthiness </i>and<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Increased Transparency and Openness </i>in the logistic regression model are found to be significant predictors of the Ethical Behaviour Status.Other factors were less contributory to having ethical behavior. From the analysis it is also inferred that the odds of having Ethical behavior is many times higher for a leader in power at the local government who did not show interest in political parties but in the citizens. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&#10;&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:Calii;mso-ansi-language:&#10;EN-US">The overall fit of the constructed model is assessed to be good.<o:p></o:p></span></p>