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Work from Home Management and Work-Life Balance in the Midst of a Health Crisis, Impact on Life Domain and Work: An Exploratory Study on Cameroon
Get PDFIn order to reduce the spread of the virus, the COVID-19 pandemic, which has rocked the world, has caused many workers to no longer come to their places of work. This has led employers and employees to seek alternative working methods, especially in a growing and emerging economy like Cameroon's. Due to the pandemic, most, if not all, workers have to work from home (WFH). As a result, WFH has become a political priority for most governments. In doing so, the terms and conditions must be worked out keeping in mind the practicality of both employers and employees. However, this current situation offers a unique insight into the efficiency of working from home and could play a critical role in future policies that reshape the current structure of working hours, perhaps allowing more flexibility. Using an exploratory framework and SWOT (Strength, Weakness, Opportunity, and Threat) analysis, this study examines the continuing experience of the employer and employees in Cameroon. A critical overview and related recommendations have been developed for future policy decisions. It will also critically examine whether this working arrangement will remain as a transitional element responding to exceptional circumstances, or whether it could be a permanent arrangement. Keywords: work from home, work-life balance, covid-19, Cameroon, pandemic,. DOI: 10.7176/EJBM/13-16-03 Publication date:August 31st 202
Requirements of participative management as an element of sustainable competitiveness: Advantages and Types of management methods: Conditions du management participatif comme élément de compétitivité durable : Avantages et Types de méthodes de management
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Cette analyse vise à mettre en perspective l’avantage concurrentiel que peut engendrer l’application du management participatif, comme mode gestion au sein des organisations. Parmi les nombreuses méthodes et techniques appliquées jusqu'à présent, certaines s'avèrent moins adaptables au contexte économique et social actuel. Dans le même train d'idées, les organisations toujours à la recherche de sources davantage concurrentiel et compétitives ont tendance à appliquer l'innovation et la nouveauté dans le domaine. A travers un modèle test, les résultats dans cette analyse se réfèrent aux donnés de 93 PME et 86 entreprises il en ressort globalement que les managers qui adoptent des pratiques participatives et inclusives de gestion telles que la sensibilisation stratégique, l’implication des collaborateurs à la mise en place des objectifs de l’organisation mais aussi du feedback managérial obtiennent une meilleure satisfaction et engagement de leurs collaborateurs et dont une meilleure performance et implication de ces derniers ce qui permet à terme pour l’organisation de dégager une avantage concurrentiel.
Mots clés : Avantage compétitif, méthodes de management, management participatif, culture organisationnelle, culture managériale, efficience, efficacité
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This analysis aims to put into perspective the competitive advantage that can be generated by the application of participative management within organizations. Among the many methods and techniques applied so far, some prove to be less adaptable to the current economic and social context. Alongside, organizations are always looking for more competitive sources to apply innovation and novelty in the field. Through a test model, the results in this analysis refer to the data of 93 SMEs and 86 companies, it emerges overall that managers who adopt participative and inclusive management practices such as strategic awareness, employee involvement in setting up the objectives of the organization but also managerial feedback obtain better satisfaction and commitment from their employees and including better performance and involvement of the latter which ultimately allows the organization to gain a competitive advantage.
Keywords: Competitive advantage, management methods, participative management, organizational culture, managerial culture, efficiency, effectivenes
