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Socio‐Organisation Existentialism and the African Organisation‐Man: A Theoretical Formulation

Seth Accra Jaja (Assistant Superintendent of Police and former lecturer, Department of Business/Public Administration, Anambra State University of Technology, Enugu, Nigeria)

International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy

ISSN: 0144-333X

Article publication date: 1 July 1995

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Abstract

Among the major problems identified by Organisational Behaviour Scientists in Africa today are those of a highly organised formal and a highly centralised management of organisation crushing the Organisation‐Man under the dead weight of uniformity. Formal organisations have become large and complex and highly organised, and the basis of their organisation is production efficiency. In this system, an Organisation‐Man is essentially looked upon as a producer and, because the formal organisation in which he is carrying on his role is so vast and complicated, personal relations seem to have lost all meanings. Formal organisation is relatively affluent. The output of goods is enormous, but entrepreneurs, and sometimes management continues to exploit the situation in their own interest, and the Organisation‐Man is engaged all the time in nothing but the exacting task of trying to, or worrying in order to, improve his economic status. The Organisation‐Man has to remain so busy in the pursuit of his vocation that he hardly gets time to look within himself and think of the quality of his life pattern. Meeting each other in factory or workshop or a crowd, commuting or agitating, he finds himself more and more isolated and alienated from the formal organisation.

Citation

Accra Jaja, S. (1995), "Socio‐Organisation Existentialism and the African Organisation‐Man: A Theoretical Formulation", International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, Vol. 15 No. 7, pp. 22-41. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb013218

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MCB UP Ltd

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