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Professor Retha Wiesner

Professor Retha Wiesner
Name Retha Wiesner
Pronoun She/Her/Hers
Position Professor (Human Resources Management)
Section School of Business
Office A526
Location Springfield Campus
Phone +61 7 3470 4519
Extension 4519
Email
Qualifications BCom Pretoria , BCom(Hons) Pretoria , MCom Pretoria , PhD Pretoria
Languages Afrikaans (non accredited translator)
Homepage http://www.retha-wiesner.com
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Biography

Retha is a Professor in Management and Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research Program Leader of the Women in Rural, Regional and Remote Enterprises (WiRE) Program. She teaches and researches entrepreneurship, leading and managing behaviour in organisations, and small business performance. She has extensive experience in leading large entrepreneurship capacity-building projects and project teams in the national and international arena. For example, in the last five years, she has led research and capacity-building projects of over $5m (with significant industry engagement) in the entrepreneurship and small business domain. Retha has published over 80 research articles and co-authored 11 books on management and behaviour. Retha supervises more than 10 doctoral students in the small business and entrepreneurship arena.

Research Career


  • Business and Management not elsewhere classified ( 150399 )
  • Strategy ( 350799 )
  • Strategy ( 350700 )
  • Entrepreneurship ( 350704 )
  • Organisational Behaviour ( 350710 )
  • Small Business Organisation And Management ( 350716 )

Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial Behaviour, Management, Organisational Behaviour, Human Resource Management, Managing Sustainability Change, Organisational Change.


Member of the Australian Institute of Management
Member of the Australian Institute of Human Resource Management


  • Institute for Resilient Regions (IRR)
  • Rural Economies Centre of Excellence (RECE)

Teaching


MBA8001 Leveraging Your Leadership Identity
MGT5000 Management and Organisational Behaviour
MGT3004 Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship
MGT8040 Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Creativity
MGT8037 Leading Teams to Success


20 Years


20 Years


Program Director: The WiRE Program (www.wireprogram.com)

Supervision


  • Business and Management not elsewhere classified ( 150399 )
  • Strategy ( 350799 )
  • Strategy ( 350700 )
  • Entrepreneurship ( 350704 )
  • Organisational Behaviour ( 350710 )
  • Small Business Organisation And Management ( 350716 )