Frederic Kwesi Great Agboletey
3469 S.E. 44 St.
73135 Del City, Oklahoma.
U.S.A.
E-mail: [email protected]
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tfn: +1-405-670-6566
Curriculum Vita
Previous Occupations: Appointments
1986-1987 Accounts Assistant at the External Services of the Post and Telecommunications Corporation. Supervisor: Director of Accounts and Finance. ETS. Mr. H. Halm. Duties: Redesigning payment schedule forms for corporate users of telephone, fax, cable and telex subscribers.
1990-1991 On special secondment to the Ghana Police Service as Instructor in Social Psychology and Current Affairs. Supervisor: The Director of Education, Ghana Police Service. Duties: Drawing syllabi for various grades of in training Police cadets. Teaching responsibilities in Social Psychology at the Police Depot. Presenting Papers on Current Affairs to Police Officers on Refresher course at the Police Communication School, Accra.
1992-1993 Teaching Assistant, Department of Psychology. University Of Ghana. Supervisors: Senior lecturers in Statistics, Organisational psychology, General Intro. Psych. Statistics. Cognitive Psychology. Duties: Assisting undergraduate students between years 1-3 to gain further appreciation in specific subject areas; precisely statistics, industrial/organisational psychology; Research methodology, Experimental/cognitive psychology.
1993- Exporting Fruit Juices to West African countries.
1998- Design and Implementation of IT mediated international inter university educational programme between Sweden and Ghana. Coordinator: Dr.Lauritz Brannstrom. Senior lecturer, IPP. Link�pings University.
1999- Working with The Dutch Mail Company (DMC), The Netherlands, Amsterdam and City Mail, Sweden. Vallentuna Office.
2000- Lectures and supervision in Small Group Observations Institute of Behavioural Studies. Link�pings University. Part-time lectures in Organisational Change Institute Behavioural Institute, Link�pings University.
2000-Part time employment with Swedish Post.
2002 SESAM Project Swedish Arbetsf�rmedling (State Employment Agency) project for unemployed immigrants in Sweden.
2002 Aerosol Packing AB Vallentuna, Sweden.
2002- Lindens Vardhem Home for the Elderly demented, Upplands Vasby, Stockholm.
Academic Record: -
1997 to date Link�pings University Sweden Doctoral Studies in Organisational Psychology.
1995 to 1997 Ume� Universitet Sweden Research studies in Psychology
1991-1993 University of Ghana Ghana M. Phil Postgraduate studies in Org. Psychology. President of the Ghana-America Friendship Association.
1987-1990 University of Ghana Ghana Bachelors degree in the Social Sciences. (Psychology, Sociology and Philosophy). President of the Akuafo Hall Junior Common Room. Executive Member of the Students Representative Council.
1984-1986 Adisadel College, Cape Coast. Ghana Sixth Form (Advanced Level). House Prefect of Jubilee House. Student Representative on School Disciplinary committee. Local President of GUNSA. Sub Editor of schools weekly newspaper, 'The Owl'.
1983-1984 St. Paul's Sec. School, Denu, Volta Region. Ghana Sixth Form. Regional Vice-President, The Ghana-United Nations Students and Youth Association. President of the local GUNSA. Entertainment Prefect.
1978-1983 Bishop Herman Sec. School, Kpandu. V/R, Ghana. Secondary Education. Member of the Student Representative Council. President of the Ghana- United Nations Students and Youth Association (GUNSA). Leader of Government Study Group.
1974-1978 Datus Preparatory Primary School Ghana. Primary Education Tema & Accra
1970-1973 Keta AME Zion Primary School Ghana. Elementary Education
3. Academic/Professional Qualifications:
Ongoing Doctorate Studies in Organisational Psychology, Link�pings University. (Thesis submitted December, 2000.)
Master of Philosophy in Organisational Psychology, 1994. University of Ghana.
Bachelors of Art, Second Class Uppers (Honours), 1990. University of Ghana.
Research Works
The Effects Of Positive-Negative Teacher Interaction On Children's Social Preferences And Academic Task Performance. Supervisor: Dr. E. Segbefia. (The study aims at assessing the impact of punitive and nonpunitive measures involving humiliatory remarks and praise remarks directed at pupils aged between 8-12 years as teaching techniques and the effects observed in children's performance in academic and non academic social tasks).
-Sources Of Organisational Decline In The Manufacturing Sector. Supervisor Dr. Robert A. Akuamoah-Boateng. (The study aims at eliciting the factors identified as leading to organisational decline in the manufacturing sector in Ghana and the implications of the findings for existing theories of organisational decline).
- Organisational Adaptation and Change in Turbulent Environments: Supervisor Dr. Lauritz Br�nnstr�m. Institute of Behavioural Studies (I.B.V.). Link�pings University. Sweden. This doctorate thesis specifies the nature of adaptive responses instigated by organisations in response to their environmental demands.
Academic Articles
Modelling Organisational Adaptation in the Manufacturing Organisation December 2002.
- The dynamics of Planned Immigrant Labour Integration in Sweden Paper Submitted for the 3rd Social Psychology Conference at Stockholm University. May 23 2002.
- The Logic of Construct and Conduct of the Focused Interview in Organisational Studies. February 2001.
- The Integration of Floor Shop Experiential Knowledge into Group Task Structuring Processes. 2002
- Specifying the Nature of Coordinating Structures in Multinational Organisations. (A proposed case study of Multi-national Organisations in Sweden; The Nature of Coordinating Structures, Task Monitoring and Linkage Processes.) (In Development).
- Entry Management at Service Organisations in Ghana. - February 2001.
- Entry Management and Lower Level Employee Induction Process at City Mail of Sweden. - February 2001.
- Entry Management as a Group Induction Process (Normative Modelling of the Group Induction Process). January 2001.
- A Consensual Approach to Managing Lower Level Work Groups. January 2001.
- The Nature of Association Needs in Newly Established Work Groups: - The Inductive Integration Process in the Decentralised Work Group. Paper Presented at the 2nd National Open Conference on Group and Social Psychology, May 2000. Lund. Sweden.
- Progressive Participative Group Task Structuring Processes in the Hierarchically Structured Manufacturing Organisation Task Designation and Decision Making Processes. Link�pings University FOG Seminar Series, November 1999.
- Resistance to Organisational Change. - Paper presented at the first national conference on Group and Social Psychology, May 1998. Link�ping. Sweden.
- Organisational Decline and Change from Organisational Development Perspective.
- Is Privatisation a Panacea for Public Sector Inefficiency?
- Personnel Training and Incentive Schemes in Declining Organisations.
- Organisational Decline in the Private and Public Sector Manufacturing Industries.
Other Literary Works
Discernible Error - Full Length Novel
Of Pity and Betrayal - A short story
Kicking Stones - A short story
Sundance - A Collection of Poems -
Species Progressional Reversal -
The Contained Community Development Project - Essay on community development projects in the Dev. Countries.
The Express Crawler - Short Story
Dark Alleyway - Essays on the void
What Light ?- Essays on the light
Gregorian Chant and others - 2nd collection of poems
(Some of the works are available at http://kwesigreat.tripod.com)