The Psychology of Management in African Organizations:
Publisher: Quorum Books
Published: July 30, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9781567204001
Subjects: Management & management techniques; Occupational & industrial psychology; Ownership & organization of enterprises; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Business/Economics; Human Resources & Personnel Management; Industrial Management; Management Science; Business & Economics / Industrial Management; Management - General; Africa; Management; Organizational behavior; Psychological aspects
First sentence: The model of industrial and organizational management in Africa is colonial in character.
Description: "Few managers of African organizations are trained in managing people. They may be technically proficient in their jobs, but there is a prevailing certainty that because they have lived among other people, they know instinctively how to manage them. Not true, says psychologist and organizational behavior specialist D. Ugwuegbu.

Moreover, not only do the new African states suffer severe shortages of managers of any kind, they also lack resources to give those they do have the skills in human behavior management they need. Dr. Ugwuegbu's book seeks to improve management effectiveness and efficiency by providing a better, more comprehensive understanding of African work systems and the behavior of Africans at work. His book, the first of its kind, introduces the science of human behavior into the management of African organizations. It challenges the reign of colonial management practice and blames them for the failure of African managers to adopt modern management techniques.

Although it absolves African cultures of the responsibility for the poor performance of African workers, it holds management rigorously responsible, and its agrees with the existing opinion that leadership effectiveness should be measured.

Human relations, as practiced in African firms, is only one aspect of human resource planning, and in fact, African organizations should learn from human conflict, not try to fight it - all of which makes his book essential for professionals in African organizations and for those elsewhere who want to do business with them, as well as for scholars and graduate students in various fields of the social, behavioral, and administrative sciences."--BOOK JACKET.