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Social Identity Changes: Challenges Facing Leadership

In: Diversity in Africa

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  • Lize Booysen

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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.

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  • Lize Booysen, 2007. "Social Identity Changes: Challenges Facing Leadership," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Kurt A. April & Marylou Shockley (ed.), Diversity in Africa, chapter 8, pages 127-156, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-62753-6_9
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230627536_9
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