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Title: | Training the African Manager: The Role of the Expatriate Manager in Malawi |
Authors: | Parkinson, John M. Rutherford, Peter J. |
Year: | 1987 |
Periodical: | Journal of Contemporary African Studies |
Volume: | 6 |
Issue: | 1-2 |
Period: | April-October |
Pages: | 25-47 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Malawi |
Subjects: | management education managers Education and Oral Traditions Economics and Trade |
Abstract: | Taking illustrations from situations in Malawi, the authors examine the problem of training managers to run parastatal organizations and business companies and corporations. All managers in Malawi face problems. These include recurrent shortages of several key inputs, of foreign exchange and of trained personnel, the pervasive influence of the political system, organizational bottlenecks, and for the expatriate in particular, cultural and personal factors. The expatriate manager's response to problems will be influenced by his attitudes towards Malawi itself, towards his job, towards other similar organizations in Malawi, towards his conditions of employment, towards Malawian managers, and towards the localization (indigenization) process. One of the most crucial problems faced by companies or organizations in Malawi is still the quality of Malawian managers. Basically, expatriate managers consider two related elements to be involved in bringing about an improvement in Malawian managerial quality. First, it will be necessary to change attitudes towards work in general; and second, it will be necessary to improve the volume and quality of training. Ref. |