Comparative management: Europe "vs" Africa

• Autor(a) principal: Gomes, Maria de Assis Pereira de Melo
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/29595
• topic: Comparative management; Management; Socioeconomics

The lack of comparative articles on the socio-economic realities of the African and European continents was the catalyst to do this dissertation, in order to understand the reasons and what the differences and similarities are. Due to the complexity and size of this task, it was necessary to reduce its scale, which is why the countries with the highest nominal GDP were chosen, namely Germany in Europe and Nigeria in Africa. This reduction, however, cannot lead to a generalisation it can, nevertheless, serve as the basis for a broader study. To this end, using PEST analysis, themes within the political, economic, social and technological realms were applied in order to make this research more objective. A quantitative and qualitative analysis was used to analyse the content, based on authors who have studied this topic individually, creating a correlation between them. After the conduction of this study, it can be concluded that all areas have major differences in these countries, and Nigeria can use Germany as an example. In Nigeria, the extremely high level of corruption and illiteracy leads to fundamental problems, with insufficient infrastructure and even the existing infrastructure being highly deficient, combined by the fact that the population has a high level of illiteracy and even the literate, for the most part, do not go beyond the basic years, which means that the population does not have the academic and technical skills to not only leverage the economy but also demand greater transparency and efficiency from the government. When it comes to Germany, the problems are different, as are the challenges. Low birth rates result in an ageing population and, consequently, a reduced number of working people, which leads to the need for labour through immigration, that is often poorly qualified.