Mhangara, Taremeredzwa (PhD)
Taremeredzwa Mhangara holds a Diploma (Forestry) from the Zimbabwe College Forestry; a BSc (Agricultural Management) from the University of Zimbabwe; a Postgraduate Diploma (Land and Agrarian Studies) from University of the Western Cape; a Master’s in Business Administration from Zimbabwe Open University and a Master’s in Phi losophy (HIV/Aids Management) from Stellenbosch University. During his time in forestry practice, he held various positions including estates manager; regional silviculture manager and forestry planning and development manager. He profiles as a pro-democracy activist and founder and managing consultant at the Mangondo Leadership Group in Zimbabwe. His thesis is about reframing forestry sector leadership praxis in Zimbabwe. Given the economic crisis in Zimbabwe, coupled with high labour turnover and falling productivities, the sector has not performed as expected. This motivated the research into the industry’s leadership frames with an objective of illuminating on current theory-practice gaps and advocating for reframing through the use of meta- insights. The research methods included interviews of a phenomenological nature, auto-ethnography, and casing to buttress grounded theory analysis. The findings showed that there is an intermix of post-colonial leadership systems focussing on control and post-instrument systems that work against individuals and output. The thesis makes a contribution in demonstrating how one might approach the indigenising concept of leadership in the business world but also to indigenous methodology.
Supervisor: Dr RC Viljoen
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