South-Africa

October 07, 2010

This project is aimed to develop future leaders for companies and organizations in Southern-Africa countries (SA). In SA there are huge natural resources, a growing amount of young people but also poverty, a lot of low-skilled workers, gender and race differences. The SA is highly multicultural countries, with different language, religions and provinces. We assume that the leadership at all level has an important role in the transition from underdeveloped countries to the level of democracy, equality and welfare. We don't aim to import western leadership models; we are convinced that in the SA countries there will be strong cultural and social factors that have to be included in the leadership concept. The project objectives are to interview leaders/professionals and gain knowledge about good leaders. From that point we are starting a network at the universities and a consultant network. These people in networks will be educated in the SA leadership and trained to run development projects in local organizations. Our role as researchers is to give SA cooperation partners support, advice and tools to work with the development in organizations. The project is running during three-year period and after that the local partners are continuing to implement the knowledge and tools. In order to communicate the project status there will be a homepage on Internet.