Abstract
This research offers an extension of current research on commitment across
cultures. It incorporates the concept of Ubuntu as an integrating model that can be
paired up with other perspectives for directing employee workplace commitment.
Research Design & Methods: A literature review entailing concepts related to crosscultures
and their relationship to Ubuntu and commitment was considered. The review
spanning 50 years covered online-databases of global and African research.
Findings: We argue here that the conceptualisation of Ubuntu is important in adapting
currently accepted cultural frameworks as operationalised by individualism, collectivism
and power distance dimensions for regional management application. Ubuntu collective
values (compassion, survival, group solidarity, respect and dignity), which relate
affirmatively with a sense of workplace collectivism, was identified as a unique element
of cultural management philosophy for directing personal interactions, workplace commitment
and performance management improvements...