Doctor Zanele Ndaba
Human Resources and Organisational Behaviour
Courses and Disciplines taught at WBS:
Organisational Design and Development; Leadership Quest; Group Dynamics; International Business elective; People Management; Human Resources Management; Diversity and Inclusion.
Research Interests:
Zanele Ndaba’s research interests are leadership, gender, race, and indigeneity in Organisational Studies. She is also interested in understanding and improving the different forms of inequalities that may exist in a society.
Industry and Professional Experience:
Zanele's work experiences are those of being an academic, management consultant, and human capital practitioner. In addition to having worked for government departments, such as the Defence Secretariat, and one of the big four management consulting firms (Deloitte), she often advocates for gender equality. She was the Programme co-director and co-organiser for the International Conference on Management, Leadership, and Governance at Wits Business School in March 2017.
Recent Publications and Scholarly Contributions:
Ndaba, Z., & Mitchell, C. (2020). SizweNtsalubaGobodo: Managing the merger minefield (WBS Case study). University of the Witwatersrand, Graduate School of Business Administration, Wits, South Africa.
Chauke, M., & Ndaba, Z. (2019, April). High growth women entrepreneurs induces women entrepreneurship theory. In International Conference on Gender Research (pp. 693-XX). Academic Conferences International Limited.
Hobbs, J., & Ndaba, Z. (2017). Women in wine (WBS Case study). University of the Witwatersrand, Graduate School of Business Administration, Wits, South Africa.
Mulira. F., & Ndaba, Z. (2017). A case of entrepreneurial learning patterns of women with hearing impairments in Uganda. In Z. Ndaba, & T. Mokoteli (Ed.), Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Management, Leadership and Governance (520-526). Johannesburg, South Africa: Witwatersrand University. ISBN: 978-1-911218-27-2.
Mulira. F, & Ndaba, Z. (2017). Towards an understanding of microenterprise economic sustainability in an impoverished context: Perceptions of women entrepreneurs with physical impairments. In D. Jayawarna (Ed.), Proceedings of 31st British Academy of Management Conference (328), Coventry, United Kingdom: Warwick University. ISBN: 978-0-9956413-0-3.
Mulira, F., & Ndaba, Z. (2016). Gender and disability: An intersectionality perspective of microenterprise learning among women with disabilities in Uganda. AfricaGrowth Agenda, (Oct/Dec), 14-17.
Other Scholarly Contributions:
Executive Education: Programme Director: Gender Identity in Leadership (2019-current)
PDBA block-release Deputy Director (2017)
Programme co-director and co-organiser for the International Conference on Management, Leadership, and Governance, at Wits Business School, Johannesburg, on 16 and 17 March 2017. (http://www.academic-bookshop.com/ourshop/prod_5929634-ICMLG-2017-PDF-Proceedings-of-the-5th-International-Conference-on-Management-Leadership-and-Governance.html)
Speaker at the International Gender Summit 5, in Cape Town, 29 April 2015. (http://gender-summit.com/gs5-speakers)
Gagnon, S., Cornelius, N., Cukier, W., & Ndaba, Z. (2014). Doing otherwise: Advancing praxis in critical diversity research. 8th Biennial International Interdisciplinary Conference, 24-26 June, Keele University, UK.
PDM Director (2013-2014)
Panellist in the Post-BRICS seminar at Wits Business School on Regional Inclusion of Africa in BRICS, Trade and Gender Issues, 9 June 2013.
Steering Committee member for the Gender Strategy for the South African Department of Environmental Affairs.
Received a certificate from the Department of Environmental Affairs for having contributed on gender issues in the environmental industry.
International Experience:
Research experience with indigenous communities in New Zealand and ethnic communities in the UK.
Recent Media:
Speaker on eNCA national news about gender inequality on 6 September 2019.
Ndaba, Z., & Gobind, J. (2019, 30 August). Wits Business School's Women in Leadership: Exploring identity, power, and perceptions in the workplace. Mail & Guardian.
Speaker on management and gender at Channel Africa, Womanity – Women in Unity on 5 June 2014.