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Dr Nceku Nyathi

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Lecturer in Management Learning

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Biography

Nceku joined The Open University Business School as a lecturer in management learning in March 2009 and is a member of the Human Resource and Change Management Centre.

He is a course team member of the Global MBA Foundations of Senior Management (B716) and on An introduction to human resource management in business (B120).

Prior to his appointment, he has held posts as an Associate Tutor, Skills Facilitator, Consultancy and held a competitive PhD studentship; investigating the post-war history of ideas of organization in Africa and included a case study of contemporary management practices in South Africa, influenced by this thought, with a focus on organizational behaviour, strategy, and human resource management in this international business context.

Nceku is a member of the African Management Research Caucus. His research interests are in international management, individual and organisational learning within an international context, research and theory in international organisation, postcolonial analyses, globalization and behaviour in the global economy.

Publications

Book chapters
Nyathi, NQ, Harney, S  (2007)  'Disidentity', Linstead, A, Beech, N and Sims, D (eds) Concepts and Methods: researching identity, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 185-197.
Harney, S, Nyathi, NQ  (2007)  'Race, revolution and organization', Jones, C and ten Bos, R (eds) Philosophy and Organization, Routledge, pp. 132-139.
Conference papers
Nyathi, NQ  (2011)  'Organisational Culture and Amilcar Cabral', Leadership and Management in Sub-Saharan Africa Conference in Cape Town, 21-24 November.
Nyathi, NQ  (2010)  'The organisational imagination in African anti-colonial thought', Academy of Management, Montreal, Canada, 6-10 August..
Nyathi, NQ  (2009)  'The Ubuntu dialogues: decolonising discourse and dualism in organisation studies', 6th International Critical Management Studies conference, University of Warwick, Warwick Business School, 13-15 July.