Biographies

Ngaire Bissett PhD is an interdisciplinary trained social and political analyst who has studied, lived and taught in New Zealand, South Africa, Britain and Australia. For nearing two decades, her academic teaching encounters have largely been with mature MBA and DBA practitioners in which she has engaged CMS and feminist philosophical underpinnings in her pedagogy. Despite the anti-theory stance of managerialism, this has proved to be an effective reference point that students welcome to help them envisage alternative organisational practice. Having concentrated on relational leadership approaches, and people and culture management interrogations, this teaching focus is also represented in her published work and links with elements of this CMS chapter. A 2015 Journal of Management Education article, for instance, documented the grounded learning potential of integrating CMS content into Masters level teaching programmes. Equally, a forthcoming Palgrave Macmillan book chapter outlines how a critically reflexive approach, in adding rigor to methodologies like autoethnography, can enable senior management thesis students to relay meaningful embodied representations. Lastly, Ngaire is currently working on a Relational Leadership and Diversity text due for publication next year as part of Routledge’s critically orientated leadership series.