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Title:African Factory Management: A Study of Some Factories in Southern Nigeria
Author:Oloyede, OlajideISNI
Year:1999
Periodical:African Sociological Review
Volume:3
Issue:1
Pages:94-110
Language:English
Geographic term:Nigeria
Subjects:industry
managers
Labor and Employment
Economics and Trade
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/24487344
Abstract:This article examines the role of factory managers in Nigeria and their relationship with the company management hierarchy. It describes the factory manager's work, and the main trends and influences to which it has been subjected over the past ten years (1985-1995). The main focus is on the day-to-day running of the factory in terms of the management of labour and the delegation of responsibilities, and the extent to which the factory manager is involved in the formulation of policies and in decisionmaking about their implementation. A pattern that emerged from the study is that the management of the factory is a fairly empirical matter. Factory managers did not follow a particular management doctrine. Most adopted a paternalistic approach to the shopfloor, based on fairly conventional ideas about the relative merits and demerits of each type of worker. Data came from a survey of 34 firms in Lagos (22 in Ikeja and 12 in Apapa) conducted between June 1995 and January 1996. Bibliogr.
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