Organizational leadership in Mozambican business. Some considerations based on a hermeneutical analysis of direct discourse

Abstract

The present paper aims at delineating the themes of organizational leadership in Africa having as departure point a hermeneutical analysis of direct discourse. The paper results from the content analysis of 30 semi-directed interviews with Mozambican and Portuguese organizational leaders working in Mozambique in two different towns, Beira and Maputo (Gomes, 2005). The interviewed leaders represent a highly diverse group of companies of different sizes, business areas, management systems and organizational cultures. This diversity helps bring together a variety of points of view, confront representations of leadership simultaneously from an emic and an etic perspective, and subsume a range of characteristics directly resulting from the analysis.