Abstract
Noble and concerted efforts have been made in many respects in the development of Africa. Although a lot seems to have been achieved, a lot more is still left to be desired in order to attain the optimum level of development and boost the contributions of African States, particularly those in the Sub-Saharan region, in key areas of positive global best practices . The need for the consciousness of maintenance culture cannot be over stressed if the continent is to attain her full potentials. Maintenance culture Management could act as a key driver in sustaining competitive advantage in as well as ensuring sustainability of processes in social and organizational settings. Thus, this is one critical area of immense potential developmental benefit to the continent and a veritable avenue to impact the global space. Through participative observation and desk research, this exploratory paper took an introspective look at the macro, micro and mini level perspectives of Maintenance culture Management. This was done to trigger behavioral alterations in the different dimensional perspectives and within the African continental environment with a view to changing the current unfavorable narrative and increasing her potentials for better global impact. Keywords : Africa, culture, development, global, maintenance, management. DOI: 10.7176/JRDM/64-04 Publication date: April 30 th 2020
Highlights
Africa is a Continent greatly endowed with resources of various dimensions with a lot of potentials for growth and development
Maintenance culture management goes beyond keeping equipment, tools, facilities, buildings and work processes in good and stable working conditions and ensures that there is a consciousness to strive for continuous improvement by placing structures which check for obsolescence in order to adapt to innovations and a new status quo
Africa’s global impact could be measured by the extent of global demand for goods and services from Africa as well as the level of attractiveness of the general wellbeing of the citizens, physical facilities, environmental structures and operational processes that could woo investors to Africa. This exploratory paper took an introspective look at the macro, micro and mini level perspectives of Maintenance culture Management within the African continental environment through participative observation and desk research
Summary
Africa is a Continent greatly endowed with resources of various dimensions with a lot of potentials for growth and development. Maintenance culture management goes beyond keeping equipment, tools, facilities, buildings and work processes in good and stable working conditions and ensures that there is a consciousness to strive for continuous improvement by placing structures which check for obsolescence in order to adapt to innovations and a new status quo. With the advent of modernization one would expect that the traditional maintenance cultural practices will be taken to more sophisticated levels but apparently this is not the case This may be observable in the level of www.iiste.org dilapidation, damage and decay in many public utilities and government owned facilities, infrastructure, operations and processes in many African States (Amankwah, Wai, Mohammed,.& Baba,2017;Magutu & Kamweru,2015). To positively alter the current narrative, the following identified hindering factors will need to be addressed
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