College of Business and Economics | Annual Report 2020 69 This School aims to provide management education excellence through a sustainable and innovative teaching and research context within a 4IR new world of work. Prof Adri Drotskie Director School of Management and programme directing on a master’s level (MCom and MBA). Her combination of industry and academic experience led to competencies such as strategic thinking, knowledge sharing, managing teams, facilitation, action learning methodology, programme and project planning, strategy development and strategy translation from both a process and systemic point of view. The School of Management consists of four very well established and distinguished Departments, namely Business Management, Industrial Psychology and People Management, Transport and Supply Chain Management and Financial and Investment Management under the expert leadership of four distinguished Heads of Department and their teams. The common denominator across the departments is management competence. Through the School, we offer the basic management skills that any employee, whether you work for yourself or for a large global organisation, need as a foundation to managing a business successfully. These basic skills are business management, financial management, people management and supply chain management. We also offer specialised education in all the Departments such as in the areas of strategic management, industrial psychology, leadership, supply chain and logistics management, transport management, project management, entrepreneurship, investment management, property and real estate management, to name a few. The School aims to provide education excellence through a sustainable and innovative teaching and research context within a 4IR new world of work. We would like to position this School as a Management competence school of choice for students and staff. In other words, when management skills and practice come to mind, any student or potential staff member must think of the School of Management at UJ first. overview In 2020, Professor Adri Drotskie was appointed as Director of the School of in the College of Business and Economics at the University of Johannesburg. Previously, Prof Drotskie was the Head of Research and Faculty Development at Henley Business School Africa where she established a new research centre and focus called #HenleyAIR (African Insight and Research). Prof Adri Drotskie lectured on the MBA programme in Research Skills and the elective module Africa Rising. She and supervised in the areas of Strategy and International Business and was the MBA Director of the School’s Executive MBA. She is a lecturer and researcher in the fields of strategic management, international management, contemporary management, and strategic marketing. At the University of Johannesburg, she led the MCom (Business Management) programme and strategically positioned it as the best MCom programme in South Africa as well as among the top 3 MBA programmes. She is a strategist by profession with 8 years’ experience in transport, 10 years’ experience in the financial services industry and 12 years’ experience in academia, in teaching and learning, research
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