Management

Leadership and Change Management

This area focuses on:

• leadership models, identity, styles and development;
• women in leadership;
• the role of emotions in leadership and followership;
• work stress and coping;
• creativity and innovation;
• models for effective change including consideration of mergers and acquisitions;
• crisis management and risk communication;
• interpersonal and intergroup communication;
• organisational culture;
• organisational reputation;
• organisational failure;
• features of leading and change in public sector management including public policy, intergovernmental relations, and local government.

Human Resource Management and Organisational Development

This area focuses on:

• competencies for effective HRM in local and cross-cultural contexts in both the public and private sectors;
• implementation of SHRM;
• workplace discourses;
• careers;
• integration of migrant workers;
• employment relations;
• knowledge in organisations;
• managing inter and intra group dynamics and conflict.

Corporate Social Performance

This area focuses on:

• wisdom, ethics in action, trust and trust repair;
• justice and justice restoration;
• equity and diversity management;
• business-government relations;
• promoting corporate social responsibility.