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- Title
Driving Leadership for Institutional Change: Engaging African Indigenous Knowledge.
- Authors
Idowu, Oluwatoyin Frederick
- Abstract
Reflective of African institutions in the last two decades is a downturn in the indices of development measured in the year-to-year ratings. Governance, gross domestic product (GDP), national income, poverty level, and Human Capital Development Index (HCDI) have all been dismally disappointing. The trend has been blamed on the nature of leadership at the governance, industry, and other business enterprise levels. This study investigated how Omoluabi--an African indigenous knowledge (AIK) can be embraced and applied as an organization development (OD) tool to bring about change in leadership pattern and direction and how leadership interacts with peers, followers, and the environment to induce performance behavior that promotes positive transformation. The skillset required to use the selected African indigenous knowledge--Omoluabi--and the associated maxims that make them work are illustrated and integrated, and their application is outlined. Questions were developed, arising out of the selected indigenous knowledge on sensitivity training (self-assessment), team spirit, collaboration, decision-making, and others with impactful recommendations.
- Subjects
HUMAN Development Index; LEADERSHIP; GROSS domestic product; NATIONAL income; ORGANIZATIONAL change; TRADITIONAL knowledge
- Publication
Organization Development Journal, 2024, p44
- ISSN
0889-6402
- Publication type
Article