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The Mark Coffie Company is in Accra, Ghana, and all of its 200 employees from the top management down to the floor operative are African. However, we are going to analyse its organisational structure and climate from the same aspects as those we used in examining the Obi Agency and the Third Press.
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For a succinct discussion of departmentalisation, see Luther Gulick, ‘Notes on the Theory of Organization’, in Luther Gulick and Lyndall F. Urwick (eds), Papers on the Science of Administration ( New York: Columbia University Press, 1937 ).
For discussion on morale and productivity see Fritz J. Roethlisberger, Management and Morale ( Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1941 ).
For an elaborate discussion on group or organisational effectiveness see Oscar Grusky, ‘Managerial Succession and Organizational Effectiveness’, in Amitai Etzioni, A Sociological Reader on Complex Organizations (New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, Inc., 1961) pp. 398–410
and B. S. Georgopoulos and A. S. Tannenbaum, ‘A Study of Organizational Effectiveness’, American Sociological Review, xxri, October 1957, pp. 534–40.
For a succinct discussion on how work can be humanised, refer to Yves Delamotte and Kenneth F. Walker, ‘Humanisation of Work and the Quality of Working Life — Trends and Issues’, International Institute for Labour Studies Bulletin, No. 11, 1974, pp. 3–14.
For details, see Abdel Rahman E. Ali Taha, Workers’ Absenteeism in the Sudanese Railway (Geneva, International Institute for Labour Studies, 1973) (mimeo): International Labour Office, Industrial Relations and Personnel Management in English-Speaking Africa, Labour Management Series, No. 40, op. cit.
and also J. R. Roper, Labour Problems in West Africa ( London, Penguin Books, 1958 ).
For details on the role of the TUC, see Ukandi G. Damachi, The Role of Trade Unions in the Development Process: with a case study of Ghana ( New York: Praeger, 1974 ).
For details on the colonial legacy, see Ukandi G. Damachi, Nigerian Modernization: The Colonial Legacy (New York: The Third Press, 1972,especially chs 2–5).
For a discussion on the controversy surrounding the origin of trade unionism in Africa, see Ukandi G. Damachi, The Role of Trade Unions in the Development Process: with a case study of Ghana, op. cit., ch. 1; Jack Wodis, Africa: The Lion Awakes (London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1961) pp. 35–156
Jack Wodis, also see his ‘Le rôle de la class ouvrière africaine dans le mouvement de liberation nationale’, Nouvelle revue Internationale, July 1962, pp. 97–111.
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Damachi, U.G. (1978). Mark Coffie Engineering. In: Theories of Management and the Executive in the Developing World. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-03586-1_10
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