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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 https://research.usq.edu.au/researcher/80y01/prof-retha-wiesner
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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. In 2024 she received the Global Women Changing the World Awards in London, in the Women Changing the World Rural Impact Category, for her impactful entrepreneurial work in regional Australia. She teaches and researches entrepreneurship, leading and managing 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 ten years, she has led research and capacity-building projects of over $12m (with significant industry engagement) in the entrepreneurship and small business domain. Retha has published over 90 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. She has secured numerous teaching awards in her career.

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, Leadership, 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
MGT6133 Leading Organisational Change
MGT6064 Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Creativity
MGT6137 Leading Teams to Success


20 Years


20 Years


Program Director: The WiRE Program (www.wireprogram.com)
Discipline Leader (Management Discipline)

Supervision


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