Cultural Reformation and the 21st Century Organizations in Africa

Even though, organizations have been perceived hitherto as one of the social institutions that can help socialize individuals into the cultures of societies in which they are domiciled; contemporary managers of Africa's corporate organizations are now confronted with global competition that necessitates that they need to break away from traditional values of the African societies that are inimical to business performance. In order to achieve this objective, workers of these organizations would have to re-align their value systems to suit the mind sets of their managers. Nevertheless, there is currently a lack of knowledge on the rate at which African workers can jettison their societal values by assimilating the cultural values of their organizations which are aimed at improving business performance or their capacity to tenaciously hold on to the cultural values of the society that they have been socialized into prior to gaining employment in modern organizations. It is against this backdrop that this book sheds some light on the extent to which cultures of African societies could be altered through the work cultures of their territorial organizations.