Towards a collective-values framework of ubuntu : implications for workplace commitment
- Molose, Thembisile, Goldman, Geoff, Thomas, Peta
- Authors: Molose, Thembisile , Goldman, Geoff , Thomas, Peta
- Date: 2018
- Subjects: Performance management , South Africa , Workplace commitment
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/286306 , uj:30978 , Citation: Molose, T., Goldman, G.A., & Thomas P. (2018). Towards a Collective-Values Framework of Ubuntu: Implications for Workplace Commitment. Entrepreneurial Business and Economics Review, 6(3), 193- 206. https://doi.org/10.15678/EBER.2018.060312
- Description: 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...
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- Authors: Molose, Thembisile , Goldman, Geoff , Thomas, Peta
- Date: 2018
- Subjects: Performance management , South Africa , Workplace commitment
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/286306 , uj:30978 , Citation: Molose, T., Goldman, G.A., & Thomas P. (2018). Towards a Collective-Values Framework of Ubuntu: Implications for Workplace Commitment. Entrepreneurial Business and Economics Review, 6(3), 193- 206. https://doi.org/10.15678/EBER.2018.060312
- Description: 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...
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On the ethical conduct of business organisations : a comparison between South African and Polish business management students
- Goldman, Geoff, Bula, Piotr, Fudalinski, Janusz, Bounds, Maria
- Authors: Goldman, Geoff , Bula, Piotr , Fudalinski, Janusz , Bounds, Maria
- Date: 2012
- Subjects: Business ethics , University students - South Africa , University students - Poland
- Type: Article
- Identifier: uj:5416 , ISSN 1817-7417 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/10965
- Description: This study explores the opinions of Polish and South African management students regarding the ethical conduct exhibited by organisations specific to their respective home countries. Through the use of a survey, primary data were collected via a self-administered questionnaire. Non-probability sampling in the form of a quota sample was employed, and a target of 250 respondents was pursued at a South African and a Polish university respectively. The data were subjected to SPSS. The findings showed that students in South Africa and Poland have little faith in organisations perceived to be conducting business in an ethical fashion. Interesting similarities and differences in Polish and South African opinion were also identified.
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- Authors: Goldman, Geoff , Bula, Piotr , Fudalinski, Janusz , Bounds, Maria
- Date: 2012
- Subjects: Business ethics , University students - South Africa , University students - Poland
- Type: Article
- Identifier: uj:5416 , ISSN 1817-7417 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/10965
- Description: This study explores the opinions of Polish and South African management students regarding the ethical conduct exhibited by organisations specific to their respective home countries. Through the use of a survey, primary data were collected via a self-administered questionnaire. Non-probability sampling in the form of a quota sample was employed, and a target of 250 respondents was pursued at a South African and a Polish university respectively. The data were subjected to SPSS. The findings showed that students in South Africa and Poland have little faith in organisations perceived to be conducting business in an ethical fashion. Interesting similarities and differences in Polish and South African opinion were also identified.
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