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Paradigms apart: Black managers in a White man's world
South African Journal of Business Management | Vol 12, No 3 | a1215 |
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/sajbm.v12i3.1215
| © 2018 David A.L. Coldwell, A. P. Moerdyk
| This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 25 October 2018 | Published: 30 September 1981
Submitted: 25 October 2018 | Published: 30 September 1981
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David A.L. Coldwell, National Institute for Personnel Research, Johannesburg, South AfricaA. P. Moerdyk, National Institute for Personnel Research, Johannesburg, South Africa
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Just as, in the West, Calvinism generated a philosophy and value system which is still evident today in the industrialized world - even if its precise connection with Calvinistic doctrine is forgotten - so Africa has evolved its own philosophy and corresponding world view. In this paper it is argued that this African philosophy, however amorphous and ill-defined, pervades Black managers' thinking and adversely affects their performance in Western-oriented organizations.
Net soos Calvinisme 'n filosofie en waarde-sisteem in die Weste tot stand gebring het - selfs al is die presiese verband met Calvinistiese leerstellinge reeds vergete - het Afrika sy eie filosofie en ooreenstemmende wllreldsiening. In die referaat word die stelling gemaak dat hierdie Afrika-filosofie, hoewel vormloos en swak gedefinieer, die Swart bestuurder se denke oorheers en 'n nadelige uitwerking het op sy werkverrigting in Westers-georienteerde organisasies.
Net soos Calvinisme 'n filosofie en waarde-sisteem in die Weste tot stand gebring het - selfs al is die presiese verband met Calvinistiese leerstellinge reeds vergete - het Afrika sy eie filosofie en ooreenstemmende wllreldsiening. In die referaat word die stelling gemaak dat hierdie Afrika-filosofie, hoewel vormloos en swak gedefinieer, die Swart bestuurder se denke oorheers en 'n nadelige uitwerking het op sy werkverrigting in Westers-georienteerde organisasies.
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