ALLAN GRAY CENTRE FOR VALUES-BASED LEADERSHIP

PROFESSOR KURT APRIL

• Personal/Individual Leadership: self-mastery; self-awareness; self-efficacy; authenticity; personal character; values; purpose; dimensions of personal choice-making and decisions; judgement/discernment; emotional maturity; forgiveness (self and/or others); kairos/timing; imperfection; personal courage; personal resilience; stewardship; responsible leadership.

• Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (which includes Gender Issues): business case for DE&I; cross-culture; cultural intelligence; all the ways we differ; inclusive environments; psychological effects of exclusion; power; precarity; sexism/racism/homophobia/ageism; guilt and shame; LGBTQIA+; selfish leadership; issues related to women in leadership; mid-life crises; diversability.

• Well-Being: self-care; forgiveness (self- and others); self-compassion; personal boundaries; burnout; suppression – thought suppression/emotional suppression/cognitive suppression; personal spirituality; self-talk (critical self-talk vs. sympathetic self-talk); ageing and issues related to retirement/old-age/ageing; reflective practices (including mindfulness, silence, daydreaming, wandering).

• Identity & Narrative: dialogue; mental models; self-confidence; self-esteem; defining moments; biculturality and mixed identity; paradigms/ideologies; psychosocial transitions; personal meaning orientations.

DR BABAR DHARANI

• Self-Leadership: big five personality traits (openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism); career development (incl. person-job fit, promotions, training, learning and unlearning, self-belief, and skills acquisition); core self-evaluations (locus of control, self-esteem, self-efficacy, and emotional stability); mid-life crises (incl. meaning, values and purpose); narcissism; personas (e.g., work-home interface); stages of psychological development; transference; work stress management.

• Organisation, Department, or Team Leadership: archetypes; group development process (change, transitioning, regression, and evolution); leadership position; person-organisation fit; organisational culture; organisational values and purpose; stimulating behavioural change and effectiveness; team dynamics; trust development; values-based leadership; work motivation.

• Emotions and Well-Being at Work: affect (positive and negative); attitude; anxiety; boredom; depression and burnout; happiness facets (incl. contentment, ecstasy, eudaimonic- and hedonic happiness, subjective well-being); happiness at work constructs (incl. absorption, arousal, organisational commitment, dedication, work engagement, flow, job satisfaction, and vigour).

• Diversity, Equity & Inclusion: atypical leadership; black psychology; business case for DEI; inclusive leadership; inclusive organizational environments; intersectionality; theory development around discrimination (i.e., “-isms” such as accent-ism, age-ism, gender binary-ism, hetero-sex-ism, rac-ism, sex-ism, etc.); women in leadership (incl. defeminization and gender fatigue); white privilege.

DR CAMAREN PETER

Values-based leadership for organisations, particularly in emerging markets.

Leadership, organisations and the fourth industrial revolution: assessing and understanding the implications of the fourth industrial revolution for organisations of the future, with a particular emphasis on emerging markets.

Complexity, organisation and leadership in the 21st century: understanding and acting upon complexity – organisational and external – with a particular emphasis on emerging markets.

Leadership, organisational resilience and behavioural change: understanding and acting to boost organisational resilience and stimulate behavioural change in organisations.

Leadership, organisational crises and resilience: leading organisations through times of crisis, or through organisational crises on the basis of values, especially in emerging markets.

Transdisciplinarity, sustainability and organisations in the 21st century: developing and/or applying transdisciplinary frameworks and approaches towards achieving organisational sustainability.