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Title:Managing culture and change in South African organisations: the way forward for sub-Saharan Africa?
Authors:Louw, Lynette
Jackson, TerenceISNI
Year:2008
Periodical:Africanus
Volume:38
Issue:1
Pages:29-42
Language:English
Geographic term:South Africa
Subjects:management
cultural pluralism
Abstract:South Africa is challenged by issues of organization and human resource management, multiculturalism, and economic and political change. The authors discuss the role of South African organizations, their emerging management practices and organizational capacities in management, and the potentialities for sub-Saharan Africa. They believe that South Africa may be in a unique position to take a lead in developing appropriate solutions by building highly adaptive hybrid management systems capable of managing change through utilizing the strengths and synergies of a multicultural workforce. They discuss seven propositions for consideration on the part of South African management. Discussion of these propositions leads to recommendations on managing culture and change in South African contexts that may be transferred to other sub-Saharan African countries. At the same time, examples of good cross-cultural and change management also exist in other sub-Saharan African countries and could well provide lessons for managers in South Africa and elsewhere on the continent. Bibliogr., sum. [Journal abstract, edited]
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