Poor leadership in all aspects of life in Barbados is responsible for the ills in our society and the workplace, says Sir Roy Trotman.
And he charged that the only way forward was for those in leadership to recognize the contradictions within our society and their contribution to them, and move to correct it.
Speaking in the Senate yesterday as debate on the Public Service (General) (Amendment) Order 2011 continued, Sir Roy said that as a result of these negative aspects, absenteeism and unpunctuality in the workplace were epidemic.
They had become so because the leaders of organizations were themselves setting poor examples, as well as willingly accepting this behaviour from workers.
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