Following the 4th Biennial Conference of the Africa Academy of Management held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in January 2018 and hosted by the Addis Ababa University, it was decided to publish a Special Issue on the theme of the Conference, Building High Performing Organizations in Africa. To this end, a Call for Papers was issued to further our knowledge of how African organizations achieve high performance and what makes a high-performing African organization. The Special Issue also considered the Conference’s best papers. After reviewing the submissions, three papers were retained. Hence, this special issue includes three papers, the Conference Keynote address and a Presidential Address by Baniyelme David Zoogah, President of the Africa Academy of Management. The three papers explore the extent to which African organizations strive to improve their financial and non-financial performance. The first paper, Awareness and Usage of Work-life Balance Policies, Cognitive Engagement and Perceived Organizational Support, examined the relationship between collective employee awareness and usage of organizational work-life balance (WLB) policies and employees’ perceived organizational support in Ghana, a West African country. Conducted in 30 organizations, the study found that employees’ awareness of organizational WLB policies positively and significantly influenced usage of these policies. The second paper, Leadership for high performance in local councils in Cameroon and Nigeria: Examining deviant and concordant practices to the philosophy of Ubuntu, assesses the leadership crisis in Africa. Using interviews and group discussions, the study analyses data from 12 council authorities in Cameroon and Nigeria. Results show that the concept of Ubuntu can be applied to these countries. However, the pervasive nature of corrupt practices in these countries undermines the key assumptions and philosophy of Ubuntu. The third paper, An effective learning culture: Using high performance work systems to strengthen the relationship between communities of practice and knowledge creation in Africa, explores how communities of practice can coalesce with high performance work systems to create an Africanized learning culture that facilitates interactions within organizations and the creation and dissemination of organizational knowledge. Using a sample of 622 participants drawn from medium-size and large organizations in Africa, the study found that high performance work systems have significant mediating effects on the relationship between communities of practice and knowledge creation. The Keynote Speech calls for the role of the African Union in management development in Africa. Specifically, the keynote speaker encourages African management scholars

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特刊简介：在非洲建立高绩效组织

在亚的斯亚贝巴大学于2018年1月在埃塞俄比亚的亚的斯亚贝巴举行的第四届非洲管理学院双年度会议之后，决定出版以该会议为主题的特刊《建设非洲的高绩效组织》。为此，发布了文件征集函，以进一步了解非洲组织如何实现卓越绩效以及使非洲组织表现出色的知识。特刊还审议了大会的最佳论文。在审查了意见书之后，保留了三篇论文。因此，本期特刊包括三篇论文：会议主题演讲和非洲管理学院院长巴尼耶尔姆·戴维·佐加赫的总统致辞。这三篇论文探讨了非洲组织努力改善其财务和非财务绩效的程度。第一篇论文《工作与生活平衡政策的意识和使用，认知参与和组织支持感》研究了加纳的集体员工意识和组织工作与生活平衡（WLB）策略的使用与员工感知组织支持之间的关系。西非国家。在30个组织中进行的研究发现，员工对组织WLB政策的认识积极且显着影响了这些政策的使用。第二篇论文，《喀麦隆和尼日利亚地方议会的高性能领导力：对Ubuntu理念的偏差和协调做法进行审查》，对非洲的领导力危机进行了评估。通过访谈和小组讨论，该研究分析了喀麦隆和尼日利亚12个议会当局的数据。结果表明，Ubuntu的概念可以应用于这些国家。但是，这些国家中腐败行为的普遍性破坏了Ubuntu的关键假设和理念。第三篇论文，有效的学习文化：使用高性能工作系统来加强非洲实践社区与知识创造之间的关系，探讨实践社区如何与高性能工作系统合并以创建一种非洲化的学习文化，从而促进内部的互动组织以及组织知识的创造和传播。使用来自非洲中型和大型组织的622名参与者的样本，研究发现，高性能工作系统对实践社区与知识创造之间的关系具有重要的中介作用。主题演讲呼吁非洲联盟在非洲管理发展中发挥作用。具体来说，主旨发言人鼓励非洲管理学者