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Critical Leadership, Educational Management and Leadership, Decolonisation, Critical Performativity, Transformation, Inclusivity, Racial Studies, Sustainability

Biography

Qualifications - PhD Education Leadership and Management, MEd Education Leadership and Management, B-Tech Education; Higher Education Management Diploma, B-Tech Somatology, NDip Somatology, B-Law and Philosophy
Dr Sadi Seyama is currently a senior lecturer in the Education Leadership and Management department at the University of Johannesburg. Trained in critical management, critical leadership, and Anti-colonial and Postcolonialism, she facilitates Organisational Behaviour (OB) at honours and masters levels through these lenses and shifts students towards the decolonial conception of various aspects of OB.
As a learning facilitator and speaker, Sadi draws on her African matriarchal identity and black feminist pedagogy to inspire decolonised, alternative thinking and affirming academic spaces that foster critical interrogation of diversity, equity, social justice and inclusion.
Her research interests include critical management studies, critical leadership studies, transformation, decolonisation and social justice. Her particular focus is on how managers and leaders exploit power dynamics and their influence on peoples’ organisational behaviour and performance’s meaningful effectiveness. Within critical leadership studies, she explores the dialectics of leadership, critical conscious leadership and the dark side of excessive positivity in leadership. She also holds the Emerald Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Best Paper Award (2022 Conference).

Activities

Employment (1)

University of Johannesburg: Johannesburg, Gauteng, ZA

Senior Lecturer (Education Leadership and Management)
Employment
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Education and qualifications (1)

University of Johannesburg: Auckland Park, Gauteng, ZA

PhD (Education Leadership and Management)
Qualification
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Works (16)

Assessment of the Implementation of Policy on Anti-Sexual Harassment in a Nigerian University

Research in Social Sciences and Technology
2024-08-04 | Journal article | Author
Part of ISSN: 2468-6891
Contributors: Success Fasanmi; Sadi Seyama
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“This Is How We Do Things”. Acculturation of Immigrant Teachers: Elusive Critical Leadership

Journal of Education Culture and Society
2024-06-13 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2081-1640
Part of ISSN: 2081-1640
Contributors: Delight Sibanda; Sadi Seyama-Mokhaneli
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Sadi Seyama

Decolonial identities in the leadership coaching space: against neoliberal leader identity regulation

Frontiers in Psychology
2024-05-27 | Journal article
Contributors: Sadi Seyama
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Sadi Seyama

Challenges in Equipping Learners for the Fourth Industrial Revolution: School Leaders’ and Teachers’ Powerlessness

Research in Social Sciences and Technology
2024-05-25 | Journal article | Author
Part of ISSN: 2468-6891
Contributors: Ntombenhle Mlangeni; Sadi Seyama
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Sadi Seyama

Critical conscious leadership for decolonisation: a Black consciousness perspective of authentically transforming leadership

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal
2024-05-09 | Journal article | Author
Part of ISSN: 2040-7149
Contributors: Sadi Seyama
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Sadi Seyama

The Social Harms of Abuse of Academics in Nigerian Universities: Failed Ethical Leadership

Studies in Learning and Teaching
2023-12-31 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2722-1857
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Sadi Seyama

“Uncovered in the glass cages”. Rethinking neoliberal governance in the times of COVID-19: Critical performativity for performance management in higher education

South African Journal of Higher Education
2022 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1753-5913
Contributors: S. M. Seyama; Sadi Seyama
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Sadi Seyama

Possibilities of Functional Stupidity in Leading Schools during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case for Pandemic Leadership

Alternation Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of the Arts and Humanities in Southern Africa
2021-12-01 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1023-1757
Part of ISSN: 2519-5476
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Sadi Seyama

“Hiding within the Glass Cage”: Performance Management as Surveillance—A Case of Academic Spaces as Resistance Spaces

Education as Change
2020-10-05 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1947-9417
Part of ISSN: 1682-3206
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Sadi Seyama

Critical perform ativity for a decolonising curriculum: Possibilities in creating emancipatory classroom spaces for exploring alternative knowledge frames

Journal of Education
2019-12 | Journal article
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Sadi Seyama

DEMOCRACY FRAMING CITIZENSHIP EDUCATION: TOWARDS THE ‘LONG WALK TO FREEDOM’ IN SOUTH AFRICA

Socioeconomica – The Scientific Journal for Theory and Practice of Socio-economic Development
2018-12 | Journal article
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Sadi Seyama

PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT AS PANOPTICISM: EMBEDDING INTELLECTUALLY REPRESSIVE CONDITIONS IN ACADEMIA

Socioeconomica
2016-12-31 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2334-9670
Part of ISSN: 2217-7558
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Sadi Seyama

Performance Management in Higher Education: Leadership Predicament?

Proceedings of ICERI2015, 8th International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation, 16th–18th November 2015, Seville, Spain
2015-11 | Conference paper
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Sadi Seyama

“Not Worth the Sweat”: Performance Management Rewards at a South African University

Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology
2015-10-26 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2079-7222
Part of ISSN: 1445-7377
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Sadi Seyama

Amenable performance management in higher education: integrating principles of agency and stewardship theories

Africa Education Review
2015-10-02 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1814-6627
Part of ISSN: 1753-5921
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Sadi Seyama

“Walking on Water” An exploration of the University of Johannesburg Heads of Department’s experiences and perceptions of the University’s Performance Management System

2013-01 | Conference paper
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