Spirit of African Leadership: A Comparative African Perspective
Lovemore Mbigi
Chapter 18 in Diversity, 2007, pp 294-303 from Palgrave Macmillan
Abstract:
Abstract We are all products of our culture. We can only see what our cultural paradigms allow us to see. Therefore, all managers and employees only see what their cultural paradigms in their organizations allow them to see. The clay material of management is subjectivity. Management is emotional, social, spiritual, political and rational. Therefore, any approach to study management should reflect this complexity and diversity. The current Cartesian scientific paradigm may be necessary, but not sufficient, in understanding management — it only addresses the rational element of management. Ultimately, the challenge of management is to move from being a science of manipulation, to also being a science of understanding. The discipline of management is culturally biased because it is about the issues of how we organize people, and how we manage the work they do. Hence, the management discipline should encompass the great “theory of being”.
Keywords: Servant Leader; African Culture; Leadership Tradition; African Philosophy; Cultural Worldview (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230627529_19
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