From loyal employees to fugitives on the ‘wanted’ list in Malawian organizations: Proposing organizational culture as an explanatory framework
From loyal employees to fugitives on the ‘wanted’ list in Malawian organizations: Proposing organizational culture as an explanatory framework

Summary/Abstract: In most Malawian organizations, there has been a growing tendency of its employees disappearing after misappropriating fundsand other resources. These ex-employees are normally featured in popular localpapers under the ‘wanted’ list with a lucrative reward attached. Apart from the long-term dented image of the organization, this development entails that thesaid organizations suffer heavy losses due to such malpractices. This paper is based on a study that analyzed the fugitive employees on the ‘wanted’ list as featuredin Malawi’s popular daily papers from January 2000 up to December 2008. The study documented the ‘wanted’ list and conducted interviews with the selected affected organizations. Based on the suggested organizational culture explanatory framework, the study findings show that the sampled organizations have developed a defective organizational culture that negatively effects the recruitment, induction and general work ethics of the said organizations. Precisely, the paper argues that the emergence of fugitive employees is a manifestation of the general malaise in the said organizations’ culture.

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