Social Identity Changes: Challenges Facing Leadership

Lize Booysen

Chapter 8 in Diversity in Africa, 2007, pp 127-156 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract South Africa is experiencing the influences of globalisation as well as numerous leadership challenges due to societal changes that have taken place over the past 12 years, after the first democratic elections in April 1994. Due to these changes in societal norms, major changes are occurring in the workplace, and societal level identity conflicts are increasingly witnessed to be spilling over into the workplace (Khoza, 1994; Mbigi, 1995; Manning, 1997; Jacobson, 1999; Van der Westhuizen, 1999; Cilliers and May, 2002; Booysen, 2004b; Luthans, van Wyk and Walumbwa, 2004; Rautenbach, 2005; van Gass, 2005). When social identity group conflicts occur in organisations, not only is work disrupted, but group members also experience substantial pain and distress that may only be remedied through significant and difficult changes in values, attitudes, norms and behaviours.

Keywords: White Woman; Black Woman; Social Identity; Affirmative Action; White Male (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230627536_9

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