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Spirit of African Leadership: A Comparative African Perspective

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  • Lovemore Mbigi

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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”.

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  • Lovemore Mbigi, 2007. "Spirit of African Leadership: A Comparative African Perspective," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Kurt A. April & Marylou L. Shockley (ed.), Diversity, chapter 18, pages 294-303, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-62752-9_19
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230627529_19
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    1. Adeyinka Adewale, 2020. "A Model of Virtuous Leadership in Africa: Case Study of a Nigerian Firm," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 161(4), pages 749-762, February.

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