Ethics, Identity and Organizational Learning –Challenges for South African Managers

As a result of the ever-changing environment and the demands of rganisations- customers, it is important to recognise the importance of some important managerial challenges. It is the sincere belief that failure to meet these challenges, will ultimately contribute to inevitable problems for organisations. This recognition requires from managers and by implication organisations to be engaged in ethical behaviour, identity awareness and learning organisational behaviour. All these aspects actually reflect on the importance of intellectual capital as the competitive weapons for organisations in the future.

Authors:

• Jacobus A. A. Lazenby

Keywords:

• Ethical behaviour
• identity awareness
• learningbehaviour.

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