Understanding Organizational Sustainability Through African Proverbs
Author: Chiku Malungu
Publisher:
Published: 2004-01-01
Total Pages: 83
ISBN-13: 9781888753363
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Understanding Organizational Leadership through Ubunt
Author: Chiku Malunga
Publisher: Adonis & Abbey Publishers Ltd
Published: 2009-07-30
Total Pages: 175
ISBN-13: 1912234122
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUnderstanding Organizational Leadership through Ubuntu offers a creative, innovative and holistic approach to understanding organizational leadership using the principles embodied in the African philosophy of personhood known as ubuntu - or the essence of being human. Using African proverbs, folktales and indigenous concepts, the book discusses the organizational principles of ubuntu and the leadership lessons that modern organizations can learn from these principles. The principles include sharing and collective ownership of opportunities, responsibilities and challenges, the importance of people and relationships over things, participatory leadership and decision making, loyalty, reconciliation, experiential learning and knowledge management By using humorous ways that touch people's heart to communicate organizational and personal management and improvement strategies, the book demystifies organizational language while at the same time enhancing its power. It also contributes to the much-needed cross-cultural dialogue among organizations and societies.
Understanding Organizational Sustainability Through African Proverbs
Author: Chiku Malunga
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781853396526
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlan Fowler, Visiting Scholar, Centre for Civil Society, University of KwaZulu Nata, and Emeritus Professor, Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University --Book Jacket.
Cultivating Personal and Organizational Effectiveness
Author: Chiku Malunga
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: 2012-12-14
Total Pages: 127
ISBN-13: 0761860290
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCultivating Personal and Organizational Effectiveness presents a holistic understanding of personal and organizational development. It builds on the African concept of personhood and community known as ubuntu and draws on insights from the wisdom contained in African proverbs. Malunga shows that the human spirit is the missing link or ingredient in most change efforts and initiatives. Most individuals and organizations are not able to surface, identify, and confront their shadows to enable lasting transformation because they do not go deep enough to touch and unleash the human spirit. Cultivating Personal and Organizational Effectiveness aims to raise the consciousness of the significance of the human spirit in personal and organizational development. The book discusses the concept and indispensability of the human spirit, the stages of spiritual development, ways to cultivate the human spirit, and the place of the human spirit in personal and organizational effectiveness.
MAKING STRATEGIC PLANS WORK
Author: Chiku Malunga
Publisher: Adonis & Abbey Publishers Ltd
Published: 2009-01-01
Total Pages: 177
ISBN-13: 1909112836
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMaking Strategic Plans Work introduces an innovative and creative approach to understanding the theory and practice of strategic planning. Based on proverbs and folktales, the book provides detailed analyses of the stages of the strategic planning process - preparation, formulation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation. It also discusses the roles and responsibilities of the key players in the process - boards, management, donors, consultants and communities and how to build their capacity for more effectiveness. It equally provides at each stage templates for assessing the effectiveness of the strategic planning process as well as the key players. The book is unique in that it uses the wisdom contained in African proverbs and folktales to discuss the stages of the strategic planning process, and roles and responsibilities of players in the process. Being metaphors, proverbs and folktales often bring out more lucidly the meanings embodied in the normally arcane language of strategic planning. Proverbs and folktales also create strong mental pictures, which are often very effective in impressing ideas upon people's minds, communicating them at a deeper level, and motivating them to action. The book is based on research, tested use of the proverbs and folktales in strategic planning practice in different contexts in combination with the author's experience as a professional organization development (OD) consultant. It will be especially useful to students, teachers, executives, board members and all players in international development, community development, organizational development, international businesses and African Studies. Volunteers and expatriates working Africa and other developing regions will equally find the book useful as it provides insight into the culture and mode of thinking of the people they work with.
Organization Paremiology
Author: Chiku Malunga
Publisher: Adonis & Abbey Publishers Ltd
Published: 2016-12-21
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 1912234971
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs people remember you as the first and leading indigenous wisdom-based organization development writer, we believe the spirit behind the use of wisdom contained in African proverbs and Folktales to develop the African continent will live on.Your books will continue to speak and challenge us to rise and create the tomorrow to which we aspire and deserve. Indeed no one can escape death, you already had plans on how you were to launch and market this book.We will always live to remember and use the wisdom that you imparted in us. You encouraged us to have dreams because, as you always argued, it is from them that the tomorrow of our dream will be nurtured. We love you dearly but God loves you more. Rest in peace, daddy. Your wife (Chawanagwa) and daughters (Thandiwe & Tiyamika) Malunga.
Animal Farm Prophecy Fulfilled in Africa
Author: Chiku Malunga
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: 2014-09-08
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 0761864377
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnimal Farm Prophecy Fulfilled in Africa: A Call to a Values and Systems Revolution discusses why deep levels of poverty and suffering persist in Africa despite all the successive regime changes over the last half century. It discusses why more people are poorer now than they were in the colonial era. The author argues that this is so because most of the leadership change efforts on the continent focus on replacing individuals rather than changing or overhauling the negative systems and the values inherent in the systems that the individual leaders inherit, create or perpetuate. The problems persist because they are systemic rather than personal in nature. Deep and lasting change that could result in lifting millions of people out of poverty will only occur when the systems, rather than only the individuals, are changed or replaced. The author challenges ordinary citizens, especially the youth, to rise up against ‘animal farm systems’ in order to create the tomorrow to which they aspire and deserve.
Elders’ Cultural Knowledges and the Question of Black/ African Indigeneity in Education
Author: George J. Sefa Dei
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2022-01-03
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 3030842010
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book makes a strong case for the inclusion of Indigenous Elders’ cultural knowledge in the delivery of inclusive education for learners who are members of minority communities. It is relevant to curriculum developers, teachers, policy makers and institutions that engage in the education of Black, Indigenous, Latinx and other minority students. This book provides opportunities for exploring the decolonization of educational approaches. It promotes the synthesis of multiple types of knowledge and ways of knowing by making a case for the incorporation of Indigenous knowledges and Indigenous Elders as teachers in learning spaces. The book is of interest to educators, students, and researchers of Indigenous knowledge and decolonizing education. Additionally, it is important for educational policy makers, especially those engaged in looking for strategic solutions to bridging educational disparities and gaps for Indigenous, Black, Latinx and other minority learners.
SOCIAL WELFARE IN ZAMBIA
Author: Ndangwa Noyoo
Publisher: Adonis & Abbey Publishers Ltd
Published: 2013-07-18
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 1912234920
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book discusses social welfare activities in Zambia in the pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial periods. It explains how indigenous social welfare initiatives in colonial Zambia, culminated in the Federation of Welfare Societies. The former became the first nationalist party in this era known as the Northern Rhodesia Congress (NRC), with Godwin Mbikusita Lewanika as its leader. The book also elucidates how the first African government, which was headed by Kenneth Kaunda, attained positive human development indictors in Zambia in the 1960s. Nonetheless, this was at the expense of Barotseland as Kaunda's government had deliberately underdeveloped Barotseland after independence, whilst harassing and imprisoning Barotse activists for decades. After 1991, successive governments continued to apply Kaunda's methods. The book contends that Zambia in its present form is an illegal state, because the Barotseland Agreement was abrogated by Kaunda in 1969. This treaty was meant to amalgamate the former British Protectorates of Barotseland and Northern Rhodesia to form Zambia in 1964.
Oblivion or Utopia
Author: Chiku Malunga
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: 2009-12-08
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 0761849874
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOblivion or Utopia: the Prospects for Africa explains that most of the problems on the continent stem from the fact that, although the continent may be politically independent, it is not economically independent. Efforts to reverse the continent's continuing underdevelopment have failed to date, including trillions of dollars in aid, because they have not been consciously aimed at enabling Africa to turn its vast natural resources into wealth, which is the only known way of ensuring economic independence. Based on a comprehensive exploration of impediments to reach the goal of economic independence required for self definition, the book proposes a five step strategy which can enable the continent to turn its natural resources into wealth by: 1.
