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Newsletter April 2017 Message from the Head of Department Department of Business Management The past year has been typifi ed by both Looking ahead, 2017 comes with a whole highs and lows for the Department of new set of challenges. The merger of the Business Management. However, I would Faculty of Management with the Faculty like to focus on some of the highlights. of Economic and Financial Sciences into In terms of our Teaching and Learning, the College of Business and Economics CHE approval for the Advanced Diploma (COBE), which will take eff ect on 1 July in Management and the Advanced 2017, represents a change in the very Diploma in Business Management was nature of who we are and what we granted. Some colleagues returned stellar stand for as a scholarly body. Although Teaching evaluations and colleagues that we might not feel the direct eff ects of immediately come to mind are the merger in 2017, it is crucial that we Dr A Makka, Dr P Thomas, Ms A prepare ourselves for this eventuality. Akhalwaya, Mr C Schachtebeck and Mr J Furthermore, exploring the online space Davids. Also, special congratulations to and the University’s devotion to the Prof S Dhliwayo, who was promoted from decolonisation agenda presents new Senior Lecturer to Associate Professor in challenges to us that we need to start October 2016. preparing for and that we need to start In terms of research, we have produced talking about. close on 30 credits in 2016, which is a How we approach these things will be 20% improvement in research output crucial. We could choose to seek the silver from 2015. Furthermore, 2016 marked lining of the cloud, or we could choose an important milestone as far as research to see the cloud inside the silver lining. Prof Geoff Goldman output in the department is concerned, Addressing these issues in a meaningful Head of Department: as for the fi rst time, journal articles and way will require conversation and Department of Business Management book chapters exceeded conference introspection. We will have to critically proceedings. This shows that our pool of appraise what we do, why we do it, and experienced researchers is growing. We the way in which we do it, in order for us are not a department trying to establish a to move forward. research culture anymore, we now have a I have no doubt that as a department, research culture. we will be able to meet the demands of As a department we also extended our these emergent challenges. As Business internationalisation eff orts in 2016. Our Management academics, we constantly partnership with the Krakow University of remind our students that organisations Economics (Poland) continues to fl ourish. have changed, that the business Prof C Nieuwenhuizen, Dr D Groenewald environment has changed, that the world and myself were invited to serve on the of work has changed, and that things are 1st sitting of the Krakow Business Schools’ not “business as usual” any more. 2017 will, International Advisory Board, and in more than ever, require of us to do exactly December 2016, Prof D Pooe and myself what we constantly tell our students! were invited to present lectures there. Ms C Jasson initiated a student visit at the end Prof Geoff A Goldman of 2016 to the University of Groningen Head of Department: in the Netherlands. Prof S Dhliwayo Department of Business Management established contact with the University Managing Editor: Acta Commercii of Wolverhampton and we are currently Faculty of Management fi nalising an MoU with them. University of Johannesburg 1 “We are what we New Staff repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not Prashika Panday an act, but a habit.” – My name is Prashika Panday and I have Society, in recognition of outstanding Aristotle taken over the role as the scholastic achievement and excellence Senior Faculty Offi cer. I have over 20 years of work experience in I have held various senior positions at the Higher education Environment. University of Kwa-Zulu Natal and at UJ. I am enthusiastic about joining this team This includes but not limited to been the and making a valuable diff erence. Executive Assistant to the Deputy Vice Chancellor; Operations Please feel free to stop by my offi ce for Manager & a Programme Coordinator. assistance or would just like to meet in person. You will always remember me I am a Bachelor of Administration for my love for coff ee & dark chocolate graduate a specialist in organizational together with my smile!!!! behaviour. I also have a Postgraduate Diploma in Management & a Member “In a gentle way, you can shake the of the Golden Key International Honour world.” –Mahatma Gandhi Prashika Panday Nthabiseng Malaza My name is Nthabiseng Malaza. I am I was working as an administrative former UJ student. I studied Public assistant at the Department of Transport Relations and obtained my National & Supply chain. My personal interests Diploma in 2012. Before joining the include - reading fi ctional love stories Department of Business Management, & cooking. Adelaide Sheik Adelaide Sheik has been exposed to She recently joined the Business the corporate and non-profi t (NPO) sector Management team in a lecturing position for the fi rst 21 years of her on full programmes and will also be working experience. involved in the academic coordination She started at the University of for the continuous education Nthabiseng Malaza Johannesburg as a Stakeholder programmes (CEPs). Manager in 2012 and took on the role Adelaide is also a social entrepreneur and of Acting HOD for the Centre of Centre a co-founder of the Dr Kenneth Kaunda for Social Entrepreneurship and Social Resource Centre (NPO) in North West Economy (CSESE) until 2016. Social Province, one of the poorer provinces entrepreneurship is an emerging fi eld of focusing on youth development and study and is also a growing phenomenon enterprise development and also serves in South Africa, which placed the CSESE in on the board for BigFish Film School an interesting position. During this period (NPO). her daily obligations were the design of curriculum for in-class and e-learning, She holds the following qualifi cations: lecturing on short learning programmes, Credit Management Dip (UNISA), stakeholder liaison, community Project Management Dip (Damelin engagement activities, managing the Business College), Advanced Social business incubator support centre and Entrepreneurship Diploma (University of Adelaide Sheik also managing commissioned research. Pretoria - GIBS), Asset Based Community More recently, the CSESE merged with Development – Fundamentals and the CSBD to form the UJ Centre for Train-the-Trainer (GIBS / COADY Canadian Entrepreneurship, where she manages Institute), MBA (Mancosa Business School), special projects which includes social, Business Incubation Management township and informal entrepreneurship. (University of Johannesburg). 2 Newsletter April 2017 Dr. Boikanyo I have a lot of corporate experience I completed a one-year management from diff erent industries including development program with USB. petrochemical, coal and gold Thereafter I obtained MBA and PhD mining sectors. qualifi cations from NWU School of I obtained a BSc qualifi cation from UCT Business and Governance. and worked as a research scientist at Sasol My areas of interest are strategy, project in the fi elds of applied catalysis, fuels and wax technologies. Thereafter I worked as management, business and enterprise senior strategy analyst for Sasol Mining development, knowledge management with the main focus being in strategy and intelligence. development and execution as well as I have a passion for research and business development and business look forward to more conference intelligence. I also worked in the gold presentations, articles and successful Dr Herman Boikanyo mining and refi ning sector in a strategic supervision of research students at Senior Lecturer: account management role with the main UJ and other universities. Department of Business focus being in the sourcing and marketing Management of gold bearing materials. Faculty of Management Personalia: PROMOTIONS AND BIOGRAPHY Professor Shepherd Dhliwayo joined the University of Johannesburg as a lecturer in January 2005. He has a PhD in Entrepreneurship from the University of Pretoria. He teaches in most business management areas but currently specialises in Entrepreneurship, Corporate Entrepreneurship, Strategic Management and Small Business Management. His research interests are in the areas of the experiential teaching of Entrepreneurship, Venture Creation (especially by the youth) and Small Business Development. He has published in local and international journals in these areas of interest and has presented at various conferences in diff erent parts of the world. He has reviewed for international conferences such as the United States Association of Small Business & Entrepreneurship (USASBE), and journals such as the Journal of Strategic Management and the International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management. Shepherd is also involved in community engagement activities and is currently the Faculty Professor Shepherd Dhliwayo of Management’s representative in the University’s Community Engagement Advisory Board. He a member of the Rotary and a past SIFE (Students in Free Enterprise, now ENACTUS) Faculty Advisor. CHRIS SCHACHTEBECK: NEW ADDITION TO THE SCHACHTEBECK FAMILY: Chris Schachtebeck, lecturer in the Department of Business Management, welcomed his daughter Mackenzie into the world in May 2016. Mackenzie recently visited the department for her very own ‘First Year Seminar’ and has vowed to return in the future. Newsletter April 2017 3 ND SMALL BUSINESS MANAGEMENT STUDENTS COLLABORATE WITH HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY (US) UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS MAJORING IN INTERNATIONAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP CONSULTING COURSE TO EMPOWER LOCAL ENTREPRENEURS. Ms. Joyce Sibeko where they will critically reflect on their The ND Small Business Management observations of the entrepreneurial UJ students and the Hofstra University The International Entrepreneurial journey for a start-up in an emerging students had the opportunity to meet Consulting course is a full-semester economy and their personal contributions on 22-23 March 2017.