Postcolonialism and national HRD: understanding contemporary challenges to skills development in sub-Saharan Africa

Ekuma, Kelechi

doi:10.1080/13678868.2019.1612651

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“…Goals 8.5 and 8.8 emphasise inclusiveness and diversity; Zarestky and Collins (2017) argue that critical HRD values promote ways of relating, learning, changing, organising and advocating for inclusivity in the workplace. HRD focuses on the development of human capital, especially intending towards economic sustainability (Rana et al, 2017), whilst national HRD the places emphasis on societal transformation focusing on enhancing and supporting the people at both the organisational and societal levels (Ekuman, 2019).…”

Section: The Concepts Of Capacity Capacity Development and Hrdmentioning

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Developing sustainable capacity for urban assemblies: Case study of a World Bank project in Ghana

Danquah

Analoui

Boampong

et al. 2022

J of Intl Development

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Donor partners have been supporting developing economies in capacity development through donor-funded projects to enable them to achieve sustainable development.To understand the effectiveness of such projects, this paper adopted a mixed-methods approach to study a capacity development project funded by the World Bank and implemented in 46 metropolitan and municipal assemblies in Ghana. The study employed the European Centre for Development Policy Management's core capabilities model (5Cs) to examine the World Bank project. The study recommends that, to ensure sustainability, capacity development projects should be embedded in Ghana's development programmes. We also propose an alternative model for the implementation of capacity development projects to achieve sustainable development.

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Section: The Concepts Of Capacity Capacity Development and Hrdmentioning

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Developing sustainable capacity for urban assemblies: Case study of a World Bank project in Ghana

Danquah

Analoui

Boampong

et al. 2022

J of Intl Development

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“…The HRD community is steadily producing quality research focused on African experiences. Recent works include studies of learning transfer (Kiwanuka, Miiro, Matsiko, & Nkalubo, 2020;Suleiman, Dassanayake, & Abang Othman, 2018), teacher training (Oonyu, 2019), higher education (Johnson, 2019), skills & capabilities development (Arubayi & Akobo, 2018;Oats & Gumbo, 2019;Otchia & Yamada, 2019;Yamada, Otchia, & Taniguchi, 2018), healthcare and literacy systems (Akello, Lutwama-Rukundo, & Musiimenta, 2017;Davis, Arana, Creel et al, 2018;Davis, Menser, Juarez, Tomaszewski, & Kash, 2019;Regmi, 2019;Wekullo, Davis, Nafukho, & Kash, 2018), promoting learning (Biney, 2019), and leadership development (Modisane, 2018) post-coloniality and NHRD (Ekuma, 2019), and collaborations in North-South scientific international projects (Lutomia, 2019). While various components of program planning are discussed throughout this literature, none of the recent studies center a planning process in their research.…”

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Program Planning and Animated Videos as Learning Tools in Sub-Saharan Africa

Bohonos

Chuma

Lutomia

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International Journal of Adult Education and Technology

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This paper reports on a case study that explores how the integrative model of program planning can be applied to better understand the process of mobile learning efforts in diverse African contexts. The authors discuss how, Scientific Animations Without Borders (SAWBO), a Purdue University-based program, creates educational videos accessible in over 220 languages and disseminates them for use on a diversity of electronic platforms, inclusive of but not limited to cell phones. The authors aim to advance important discussions related to how human resource development research and practice can be responsive to local communities while working to enhance agricultural productivity and gender equity in the Global South.

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“…This includes whether the hybridity of HRM in the South implies a simple mixture of Western and indigenous/local people management practices, and if so, how local are the “local practices” of (people) management in the postcolonial South. Yet, apart from a few cases (Ayentimi et al , 2018b; Jackson, 2014), there is a paucity of research devoted to examining the presence and positional identity of HRM in Southern organisations against the colonial past of the South and its social fabric (Ekuma, 2019; Pio, 2007). Therefore, there is a need to examine how the positional identity of HRM in Southern organisations has moved to an ambivalent–hybrid disposition.…”

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The Third Space, mimics and ambivalence of HRM in the Global South: a postcolonial reading

Jayawardena

2022

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Purpose This paper aims to accomplish two purposes: firstly, it revisits the “positional identity” – the ambivalent-hybrid disposition – of human resource management (HRM) in the (postcolonial) Global South. Secondly, it seeks to reframe the role of Southern agents of the epistemic community of HRM, particularly human resource (HR) managers, in managing people in the South. Design/methodology/approach This paper takes inspiration from the postcolonial theory of Homi Bhabha, his notions of hybridity, the Third Space and colonial positionality, to revisit the positional identity of HRM and to reframe the role of HR managers in the South. Findings In postcolonial Southern organisations, HR managers play a dual role – as “mimics” and “bastards” of Western discourses of HRM. The dual role tends to put the managers in Southern organisations in a “double–bind”. Research limitations/implications This paper helps in the understanding of the role of HRM as well as HR managers in Southern organisations regarding the (post-)colonial legacy of the South. Originality/value This paper provides new insights into the identity of HRM in the Global South beyond the dualistic understanding of HR practices, such as convergence–divergence and the mere form of crossvergence. It argues that hybridisation of HRM in Southern organisations takes place in the form of (post-)colonial hybridity.

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Postcolonialism and national HRD: understanding contemporary challenges to skills development in sub-Saharan Africa

Cited by 7 publications

References 58 publications

Developing sustainable capacity for urban assemblies: Case study of a World Bank project in Ghana

Developing sustainable capacity for urban assemblies: Case study of a World Bank project in Ghana

Program Planning and Animated Videos as Learning Tools in Sub-Saharan Africa

The Third Space, mimics and ambivalence of HRM in the Global South: a postcolonial reading

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