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The incorporation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into Human Resource Management (HRM) represents a significant shift in organisational procedures, offering exceptional prospects for enhanced effectiveness and inclusiveness. This study investigates the many impacts of AI on HRM, with a particular focus on its capacity to automate repetitive jobs, p...
Purpose
This article aims to critically analyse and critique the impact of President Donald Trump’s second term on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives in the United States of America and beyond. It aims to document the policy changes enacted under Trump, explore the resulting consequences for various sectors (government, higher educat...
This conceptual paper addresses the critical issue of anti-Black racism within organizations and aims to spark a discussion on action-oriented Black liberation beyond the workplace. Drawing inspiration from African anticolonial thought, particularly Steve Biko’s Black Consciousness (BC) political framework, we propose a praxis to tackle anti-Black...
Self-talk is a well-researched component of self-efficacy that is frequently used as a motivational tool in sports. This study investigated how self-talk, as a component of entrepreneurship self-efficacy, relates to entrepreneurial motivation orientation. An online survey measured the self-talk valence of twenty-four entrepreneurs. Subsequently, in...
This book chapter adopts a decolonial perspective to explore African perspectives on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) within the context of African societies. With a specific focus on African historical and political experiences, cultural values, and indigenous knowledge systems, the chapter imagines possibilities for decolonising DEI theorie...
The meteoric growth of the platform economy, its economic underpinnings as well as the accompanying human practices, have provoked academic debates as well as shone a light on its praxis. In this gig economy, the conditions of work have significantly changed from what used to be relatively stable markets, moored self- and work identities, with pred...
After studying this chapter, you should be able to do the following: • Offer a definition of religion and spirituality, and highlight some of the characteristics of such orientations. • Differentiate between religion and spirituality. • Explain the importance of the religious and spiritual in all spheres of life (including working life). • Show som...
The dynamic landscape of modern organizations necessitates the cultivation of authentic leaders to drive success and ensure sustainability. Effective leader development is characterized by self-awareness, relational transparency, balanced processing, and an internalized moral perspective. This chapter explores the intricate relationship between lea...
This paper investigates the factors contributing to the underrepresentation, marginalization, and discrimination of women and black females in senior and executive leadership positions in the South African manufacturing sector. Despite constituting 44,6% of the economically active population, women only hold 26% of the top managerial positions. Sim...
The current coronavirus crisis demonstrated the need for transnational coordination to combat the pandemic. The crisis may be viewed as an opportunity to reconfigure our global economy for a better future that fosters equality and opportunity beyond national regulation and throughout the global value chains (GVCs). Taking the preservation of the co...
Exclusion is the process by which some people are left out/excluded from a group or situation. It can also be described as an incident/s where an individual is ostracised, with associated feelings of alienation and of being sidelined. In the workplace, exclusion has significant effects on a person’s relationships, opportunities, and career journey....
Steward Leadership is a form of leadership which focuses on others, the community and society at large, rather than the self. Many senior leaders and executives across the globe appear to move into a steward leadership mindset when their careers have matured, or when they are in the second half of their life- or career cycles, whereas executives of...
This study seeks to evaluate how interventions exposing leaders to ego development models and personality coaching could cultivate leadership maturity. The intervention targeted two levels of adult and leadership development. The first level involved basic understanding of differences in individual and other personalities and preferences. The aim h...
Objective:
Burnout experiences for management and subordinates can affect preventative interventions implemented by management. Our study investigated if these differences in experiences of burnout are (1) dimension specific (2) correspond to differences in perceptions of the effectiveness of burnout prevention methods.
Methods:
Two hundred thir...
This article aims to explore the impact of emotions and behaviours of innovation champions on organisation innovation outcomes. Our research suggests that champions do not necessarily contribute to successful outcomes. This could be ascribed to the fact that the role of the innovation champion is often oversimplified, while the context and specific...
This study used business units in different stages of the organizational lifecycle (OLC) and tested employee job satisfaction, affective organizational commitment, and work engagement to understand the relationship between OLC and happiness at work. Furthermore, this study investigated Person-Organization (P-O) fit by testing for a locus of control...
Building simplified models using prior information from experiences and learnings from reality is a natural propensity of the mind. Inputs from any new stimuli encountered are processed through mental models for quick action towards the stimuli, serving a vital purpose for survival. However, since mental models are created using prior information,...
An instinctive in-grouping and out-grouping of people by our psyche is a form of an adaptive ‘fixation’ that can lead to immense suffering for those excluded. Exposure to diversity is a foundational step to break free from this fixation, which has been supported by social movements pioneered by iconic leaders and is now vastly regulated through leg...
What is well established in the literature is that diversity and innovation are interlinked. There is also literature that argues that spatial concentration of diverse individuals increases personal interaction across economic sectors, which in turn generates new ideas, new products and new processes. However, in South Africa we often have people g...
Does entrepreneurship or employment allow for happier personnel in business organizations? Research conducted in South Africa indicates a statistically significant correlation – that earlier stages of an organizational life cycle are associated with happier personnel in the organization. Additionally, in respect of locus of control, scholars have l...
Purpose
Employee boredom is of concern to organizations because of its impact on employees’ quality of work life and productivity. This study aims to test the regulation of workplace boredom through meaning in life by workplace heroes to contribute to theory by examining the relationships between the variables and to practice by uncovering the pote...
The research aimed to gain understanding of the self-perceptions of black professionals in relation to business leadership, and how these self-perceptions influenced their behaviors, aspirations and self-perceived abilities in leadership positions. The study was specifically focused on black South African professionals. Black professionals were fou...
Entrepreneurship research and practice has received a great deal of attention in the past decade. Due to the role that entrepreneurial activities can play in tackling grand challenges, the predominant focus of such studies has been on the entrepreneurial journey, the network, the impact, the process, as well as the cultivation of ‘the entrepreneur’...
The early promises of a unified South Africa as a rainbow nation after its first democratic election in 1994 and a breakaway from minority rule, has certainly in its delivery, in the main, been forgotten, side-lined, faded or adjusted, 27 years on. A major part of the country’s centuries-old colonial history, Apartheid history and post-Apartheid/de...
This paper explores participant leader experiences of mindfulness at the workplace and presents an inductive model that highlights the potential of the mindful individual to transform their work world in the domains of productivity, relationality and power. The model highlights the resources and capacities built through practice and considers capac...
Using an intersectional framework, our study investigated social categories that intersect with hegemonic masculinities and internal hegemony. A South African context was chosen due to its recent Apartheid history of assigning racial hierarchical privileges between men, and the subsequent encouragement to amalgamate that has brought differences in...
This research set out to study the role of intuition in the decision-making of business leaders and sports leaders, with three objectives: (i) to identify the key factors that influenced intuition-based decision-making, (ii) to propose a theoretical model for intuition-based decision-making, and (iii) to compare intuition-based decision-making skil...
Compassion in organizations benefits the giver and receiver of compassion, and the organization as a whole. Organizations with resource limitations, however, face risks and liabilities for compassion organizing. In South Africa, an emerging economy with a challenged socioeconomic environment, human service organizations face resource limitations. O...
Learning outcomes
The learning outcomes are as follows: identify the key challenges of leading a large organisation that is self-serving as compared to one that has people of integrity in its employ; understand how resilient leaders need to be to remain focussed on the task at hand while faced with resistance and controversy at every turn; demonstr...
Diversity management, which is well established as a concept in many industrialized economies, has not been understood in its broadest sense within most African workplaces. Additionally, an uncritical adoption of Westernized diversity management practices within Africa leaves it vulnerable to the further exploitation of human potential through maxi...
Religious Diversity in the Workplace - edited by Jawad Syed December 2017
The litany of ethics lapses in corporations continues to make headlines, showing no signs of slowing down—Volkswagen develops illegal software to manipulate emissions data (The Economist, 2015); “Too big to fail banks,” plead guilty to manipulating foreign currencies (Corkery & Protess, 2015); officials of the Banco Espirito Santo in Portugal are a...
Human interaction is so important because, in the workplace, you always have to work with other people. As a leader, the way in which you and others relate to each other, authentically and inauthentically and use personal- and collective power within those relationships can create positive, enabling workplace environments, or be places of exclusion...
Human interaction is so important because, in the workplace, you
always have to work with other people. As a leader, the way in which you and others relate to each other, authentically and inauthentically and use personal- and collective power within those relationships can create positive, enabling workplace environments, or be places of exclusion...
This chapter builds on an earlier chapter titled “International Diversity Management: Examples from the USA, South Africa, and Norway.” In the first version of this chapter, we found one common subject emerging when looking closer at all three examples. In all three cases we found a call for the moral and justice case for diversity management, inst...
This study seeks to elucidate an alternative form of leadership training – that of improvisational theater – in which acting under conditions of uncertainty, accepting offers, crafting a disciplined imagination, suspending judgement, letting go, being present and enhancing awareness skills may become learnable components of leadership development....
Innovation, a differentiator for global competitiveness, is not necessarily implemented effectively due to several factors, of which effective team composition (and its individual dynamics) is only one. For the purposes of this study, we defined ‘successful innovation’ as acceptability of the outcome to the end-user. This study’s main research was...
This chapter examines the issue of race and ethnicity at work in the context of managing diversity and inclusion. Also includes numerous international examples including from South Africa, Iraq and India.
This paper explores the value that computer and video games bring to learning and leadership and explores how games work as learning environments and the impact they have on personal development. The study looks at decisiveness, decision-making ability and styles, and on how this leadership-related skill is learnt through different paradigms. The p...
The extreme demographic-role misrepresentation within organisations is a key business and societal issue in post- Apartheid South Africa. This research relates to deepening the understanding about the perception of inclusion with
respect to demographic groups such as race/ethnicity, gender, age, tenure, religion, sexual orientation, disability, pos...
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to offer a theoretical and methodological framework to overcome knowledge gaps on Whiteness in organizational and management studies. Design/methodology/approach - The paper draws on a brief review of literature on ethnic privileges. Findings - The authors propose a relational approach to tackling ethnic privi...
International Human Resource Management - edited by Mustafa F. Özbilgin March 2014
Organisations today generally have a more diverse workforce, in terms of country of origin, than in the past. As the capital and labour markets continue to globalise, growing numbers of people move across national boundaries to work in different parts of the world. The aim of this chapter is to introduce and explore the conditions and dynamics that...
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to offer a theoretical and methodological framework to overcome knowledge gaps on Whiteness in organizational and management studies. Design/methodology/approach – The paper draws on a brief review of literature on ethnic privileges. Findings – The authors propose a relational approach to tackling ethnic privi...
This paper explores the constructs of shame and guilt, the role of these constructs in
women fulfilling the role of breadwinners within their marital or family units, and the
impact it had on the unit. The paper also explores the challenges that these women
faced within the society, the workplace, their family unit and in their marriages. A
phenome...
Compassion in organizations is researched as a three-stage interrelated process of noticing another's pain, empathic concern or feeling another's pain, and taking action to relieve all, or some, of their suffering. Current organizational compassion theory identifies agent capacities of emotional flexibility and agent diversity in the form of cognit...
Structured Abstract: Purpose-The purpose of this paper is to fully explore and create an understanding of the widely-misunderstood phenomenon of self-love and its relevance and value to leadership and organisations. In discussing the impact of self-love on leadership, the potential to improve employee engagement using these findings is highlighted....
This chapter develops earlier work in the field by Ozbilgin and Tatli (2008) and uses examples of three countries-the USA, South Africa, and Norway-to illustrate the complexity of managing diversity across national borders. Key challenges of international diversity management are highlighted. These three cases have been selected using a theoretical...
This article discusses opportunities and challenges in the governance of urban sustainability transitions, with an emphasis on the role and necessary capabilities of collaborative intermediary organisations (CIOs). CIOs are defined as a particular type of intermediary organisations that create platforms for deliberation and collaboration between di...
Knowledge Management (KM) is an evolving field that attempts to maximise and sustain the competitive advantage of a company through leveraging its knowledge resources. KM practises are often built on a foundation of knowledge transfer and knowledge sharing. Recently there has been an increase on the reliance of automated tools to perform these func...
Drawing on a higher education comparative study of 184 African-American students in the United States (US) and 310 Black South African undergraduate students in South Africa, the authors identify patterns of social comfort in relation to ethnic difference and similarity. Respective groups were administered identical Revised Social Scales. Factor an...
Steward leadership is a form of leadership that focuses on others, the community and society at large, rather than the self. Many senior leaders and executives across the globe appear to ‘naturally’ move into a stewardship mindset at a ripe age or when their careers have matured, whereas executives of around 30 years old, on average, are typically...
The purpose of this paper is to shine a light on the relatively unexplored phenomenon of self-love, and to create a conscious understanding of what it is and the powerful role that it could play at the heart of leadership, particularly in improving employee engagement. In offering a contribution that may help leaders to evolve their leadership, thi...
Compassion in organizations is researched as a three-stage interrelated process of noticing another's pain, empathic concern or feeling another's pain, and taking action to relieve all, or some, of their suffering. Current organizational compassion theory identifies agent capacities of emotional flexibility and agent diversity in the form of cognit...
This paper investigates the impact of locus of control, a psychological social learning theory that is rigorously researched for its implications on leadership qualities, on the level of happiness of an individual. The primary research strategy employed was the survey strategy. Participants were asked to fill in a questionnaire that was designed to...
Today's modern organisations have no choice but to face choices regarding how to implement diversity initiatives and treat their stakeholders, given the globalized nature of capital markets. Unfortunately, their foci appear to be narrowly deployed at the 'managing diversity' level, or even the 'acknowledging diversity' level, but not getting to the...
These analyses explore the differences in locus of control and subjective well-being in China and Southern Africa, including how these variables relate to each other in each region and how demographic variables relate to both subjective well-being and locus of control. One hundred and eleven professionals were studied across Southern Africa and Chi...
In recognition of the fact that the world is dynamic and changing, the research re-tests the well-established relationship between internality and success, and its recognition as a trait of leaders. Contrary to some published Western academic literature, the research results conclude that higher levels of successes are achieved by individuals with...
_____________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT This paper explores some of the underlying principles of the Afro-centric paradigm, encapsulated by humanistic-and communalist principles. Suggestions on how South African Modes of Leadership could be incorporated into the workplace are presented, and explored further in conjunc...
Ethics is concerned with moral obligation, responsibility, social justice, and the common good. It is about defining the practices and rules—written and unwritten — which inform responsible conduct and behaviour between individuals and groups in order to maintain, or enhance, the common good. Everything we do has a consequence, such that ethics is...
Many of the scandals, indiscretions and collapses, over the last few years, at formerly venerated organizations were the results of toxic relationships, dubious economic models, opaque workplace paradigms, as well as questionable collective and individual actions and behaviours of people who, ordinarily, would not be considered ‘typically criminal’...
Copyright: 2009 Inter-Research. This article is available on Open Access Socioeconomic and ecological systems exhibit complex, interdependent behaviour which is often difficult to model and understand. This is due to the complex reorganisation of key sub-system processes involving nonlinear, cross-scale and cross-sector interactions in real time. H...
This article summarises experimental results that bring together two views in contemporary science: Bayesian analysis and link prediction, to enhance the current understanding of social network analysis (SNA), particularly in value creation through social connectedness – an important, and growing, discipline within management science. Traditional l...
Much of the business literature on competitive advantage investigates corporate effort at the strategic level, and tends to focus on key success factors that sustain advantage. Porter (1980), for instance, used "value chain" analysis as a tool for inter-functional linkage. Alternately, Chamberlin (1933) introduced the notion that assets can be expl...
Due to changing demographic patterns, organisations universally
are facing an increase in the number of employees due for
retirement and a dwindling number of younger workers available
to replace them. Between 40 and 70% of all senior executives
will become eligible for retirement in the next five
years at most major corporations (Gandossy & Kao, 2...
Africa is a unique continent, and the solutions to its multifaceted problems and challenges are only going to come from its own soil. The collection of papers from authors, who are preeminent voices in the diversity
discipline on the continent, explores notions of crossvengence and hybridisation of Africa’s sense making
processes and activities – s...
South Africa has unique challenges. Thirteen years since becoming democratic, it is still going through its own unprecedented change in joining the global economic network and moving from Apartheid to democracy and from a closed to an open community. These political and sociological changes have also infiltrated business and therefore management ed...
Diversity is multi-dimensional, creating a faceted set of realities. What, then, is the meaning of diversity? This collection of essays and papers from authors, who themselves are diverse in experience and nationalities, offer unique perspectives into diversity beyond the compliance parameters of gender, ethnicity and physical ability. Many papers...
In concluding this book, which is rich in perspectives, suggestions and affirmations, we would like to close the loop from the introduction by drawing in some (not all again) of the key shifts in diversity understanding and practice around the globe. In doing so, we would like to highlight slivers for provoking further thought on these philosophica...
Getting to grips with the dualistic nature of an emerging, unified Europe is very necessary for incumbent and emerging leaders where, for instance, for the most part Western European countries and companies have opted to either implement the minimum requirements, normally driven through law and legislation in its companies and societies, e.g., impl...
In the broadest sense, the purpose of corporate governance is to ensure that listed companies are fair and honest with their range of stakeholders. These stakeholders include shareholders, employees, customers and society at large.
Why do we value bio-diversity and yet look upon social diversity as an “issue”? This is a conundrum, for sure. There are many varied views on socially ascribed diversity; its “issues” are critically debated, passionately held, and politically created. This simmering caldera erupts periodically into movements for human rights and social justice. As...
By referring to “Africa” or an “African way” is to suggest that there is only one kind of approach to life, business, and government in Africa, and that the largest continent on the planet with over 2,000 different ethnic and cultural groups is somehow homogeneous in culture, resources, governance, language, infrastructure, values, religion, societ...
At the turn of the new millennium, a renewed, sometimes confused, search for meaning and identity affirmation started gathering momentum around the globe. The Chinese are reaching out for the American dream, Africa and Eastern Europe are straining to transform itself into competitive, industrialized world forces, Latin America seeks to reaffirm its...
The West has continued to supply leadership and management ideas, political systems, and economic infrastructures to Africa, from colonial times to the present. Understandably, most Western theories that are continuously being used in organisations in Africa, with their seemingly good intentions, have not achieved the desired outcomes, because many...
This article brings together two views of organisations: resource-based theories (RBT) and social network analysis (SNA). Resource-based theories stress the importance of tangible assets, as well as less tangible ones, in the competitive advantage and success of organisations. However, they provide little insight into how resources are brought toge...
Two competitive intelligence processes within a Global Energy Multinational are critically analyzed - Competitive Strategic Business Intelligence (CIAD) and Competitive Technical Intelli- gence (CTI). It has been found that the CIAD process is linear and carried out by small team of ana- lysts from which intelligence moves upward to be actioned at...
