Kurt April
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1257249 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Kurt April |
| NOMBRES | Kurt |
| APELLIDO | April |
| FIRMA | APRIL K |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Cape Town |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9950-3200 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2006 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Decolonising management education
Decolonizing Spiritual Inclusion
Relatability as a Racialised Construct in Corporate Graduate Recruitment
In corporate graduate recruitment worldwide, candidates are often assessed not only on competence but on whether they are deemed relatable. This study theorises relatability as a racialised cultural-affective filter that covertly sustains inequality. Drawing on qualitative interviews, we identify five interlinked processes of self-presentation, confidence, bias, choice, and affinity, through which whiteness operates as a normative anchor in hirin…
Shielding labour and the temporal governance of leadership legitimacy
Purpose This study aims to examine why leadership legitimacy remains fragile for South African Black women leaders despite increased representation in senior and executive roles. Existing research has focused on access, advancement and representation, leaving under-examined how legitimacy is evaluated and withdrawn after appointment. This study frames leadership legitimacy as a process governed through ongoing evaluation shaped by historically se…
Invoking Biko in MOS
This conceptual paper addresses the critical issue of anti-Black racism within organizations and aims to spark a discussion on action-oriented Black liberation beyond the workplace. Drawing inspiration from African anticolonial thought, particularly Steve Biko’s Black Consciousness (BC) political framework, we propose a praxis to tackle anti-Black racial violence at societal, organizational, and interpersonal levels in Southern Africa and beyond.…
Intersectional Passing and the Costs of Conditional Inclusion
Although inclusion is increasingly celebrated as institutional progress, individuals marked by intersecting racialized and gendered histories often experience it as conditional and extractive. This study examines how South African Indian women (SAIW) leaders navigate the affective and epistemic labor required to remain legible within institutions that promote inclusion while sustaining exclusionary norms. Drawing on in‐depth interviews with SAIW …
Types of prejudice
The anti-DEI agenda
Purpose This article aims to critically analyse and critique the impact of President Donald Trump’s second term on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives in the United States of America and beyond. It aims to document the policy changes enacted under Trump, explore the resulting consequences for various sectors (government, higher education and private sectors) and assess the broader implications for social justice and global conversat…
Atypical Black Leader Emergence
The research aimed to gain understanding of the self-perceptions of black professionals in relation to business leadership, and how these self-perceptions influenced their behaviors, aspirations and self-perceived abilities in leadership positions. The study was specifically focused on black South African professionals. Black professionals were found to exhibit signs of deep-rooted pain, anger and general emotional fatigue stemming from workplace…
An intersectional approach to hegemonic masculinity and internal hegemony
Using an intersectional framework, our study investigated social categories that intersect with hegemonic masculinities and internal hegemony. A South African context was chosen due to its recent Apartheid history of assigning racial hierarchical privileges between men, and the subsequent encouragement to amalgamate that has brought differences in masculinities to the surface. Fifteen newly enrolled participants in a ‘community of practice’ were …
Impact of Locus of Control Expectancy on Level of Well-Being
This paper investigates the impact of locus of control, a psychological social learning theory that is rigorously researched for its implications on leadership qualities, on the level of happiness of an individual. The primary research strategy employed was the survey strategy. Participants were asked to fill in a questionnaire that was designed to test, amongst other variables, their locus of control and level of happiness. The Spearman Rank Cor…
Ethics and leadership
Many of the scandals, indiscretions and collapses, over the last few years, at formerly venerated organizations were the results of toxic relationships, dubious economic models, opaque workplace paradigms, as well as questionable collective and individual actions and behaviours of people who, ordinarily, would not be considered ‘typically criminal’. The individuals involved have typically been people with good education, caring parents, were comm…
Cave Canem! The Art (or Science?) of Western Management in an African Context
The West has continued to supply leadership and management ideas, political systems, and economic infrastructures to Africa, from colonial times to the present. Understandably, most Western theories that are continuously being used in organisations in Africa, with their seemingly good intentions, have not achieved the desired outcomes, because many Africans find it difficult to relate to them and have to sacrifice their authenticity in order to f…
Diversity in Africa
Context tension
The canon of knowledge within the fields of management and leadership theory and practice has been developed and espoused from Western capitalist principles, with leading thinkers in the field being mainly of American of European dissent. These ideas have then been 'exported' beyond Western boundaries as trade has moved from being multinational, through international to global, and practices such as international outsourcing have become more wide…
Impact of Locus of Control Expectancy on Level of Well-Being
This paper investigates the impact of locus of control, a psychological social learning theory that is rigorously researched for its implications on leadership qualities, on the level of happiness of an individual. The primary research strategy employed was the survey strategy. Participants were asked to fill in a questionnaire that was designed to test, amongst other variables, their locus of control and level of happiness. The Spearman Rank Cor…
The anti-DEI agenda
Purpose This article aims to critically analyse and critique the impact of President Donald Trump’s second term on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives in the United States of America and beyond. It aims to document the policy changes enacted under Trump, explore the resulting consequences for various sectors (government, higher education and private sectors) and assess the broader implications for social justice and global conversat…
Context tension
The canon of knowledge within the fields of management and leadership theory and practice has been developed and espoused from Western capitalist principles, with leading thinkers in the field being mainly of American of European dissent. These ideas have then been 'exported' beyond Western boundaries as trade has moved from being multinational, through international to global, and practices such as international outsourcing have become more wide…
Atypical Black Leader Emergence
The research aimed to gain understanding of the self-perceptions of black professionals in relation to business leadership, and how these self-perceptions influenced their behaviors, aspirations and self-perceived abilities in leadership positions. The study was specifically focused on black South African professionals. Black professionals were found to exhibit signs of deep-rooted pain, anger and general emotional fatigue stemming from workplace…
An intersectional approach to hegemonic masculinity and internal hegemony
Using an intersectional framework, our study investigated social categories that intersect with hegemonic masculinities and internal hegemony. A South African context was chosen due to its recent Apartheid history of assigning racial hierarchical privileges between men, and the subsequent encouragement to amalgamate that has brought differences in masculinities to the surface. Fifteen newly enrolled participants in a ‘community of practice’ were …
Diversity in Africa
Cave Canem! The Art (or Science?) of Western Management in an African Context
The West has continued to supply leadership and management ideas, political systems, and economic infrastructures to Africa, from colonial times to the present. Understandably, most Western theories that are continuously being used in organisations in Africa, with their seemingly good intentions, have not achieved the desired outcomes, because many Africans find it difficult to relate to them and have to sacrifice their authenticity in order to f…
Ethics and leadership
Many of the scandals, indiscretions and collapses, over the last few years, at formerly venerated organizations were the results of toxic relationships, dubious economic models, opaque workplace paradigms, as well as questionable collective and individual actions and behaviours of people who, ordinarily, would not be considered ‘typically criminal’. The individuals involved have typically been people with good education, caring parents, were comm…
Impact of Locus of Control Expectancy on Level of Well-Being
This paper investigates the impact of locus of control, a psychological social learning theory that is rigorously researched for its implications on leadership qualities, on the level of happiness of an individual. The primary research strategy employed was the survey strategy. Participants were asked to fill in a questionnaire that was designed to test, amongst other variables, their locus of control and level of happiness. The Spearman Rank Cor…
Atypical Black Leader Emergence
The research aimed to gain understanding of the self-perceptions of black professionals in relation to business leadership, and how these self-perceptions influenced their behaviors, aspirations and self-perceived abilities in leadership positions. The study was specifically focused on black South African professionals. Black professionals were found to exhibit signs of deep-rooted pain, anger and general emotional fatigue stemming from workplace…
An intersectional approach to hegemonic masculinity and internal hegemony
Using an intersectional framework, our study investigated social categories that intersect with hegemonic masculinities and internal hegemony. A South African context was chosen due to its recent Apartheid history of assigning racial hierarchical privileges between men, and the subsequent encouragement to amalgamate that has brought differences in masculinities to the surface. Fifteen newly enrolled participants in a ‘community of practice’ were …
Context tension
The canon of knowledge within the fields of management and leadership theory and practice has been developed and espoused from Western capitalist principles, with leading thinkers in the field being mainly of American of European dissent. These ideas have then been 'exported' beyond Western boundaries as trade has moved from being multinational, through international to global, and practices such as international outsourcing have become more wide…
Invoking Biko in MOS
This conceptual paper addresses the critical issue of anti-Black racism within organizations and aims to spark a discussion on action-oriented Black liberation beyond the workplace. Drawing inspiration from African anticolonial thought, particularly Steve Biko’s Black Consciousness (BC) political framework, we propose a praxis to tackle anti-Black racial violence at societal, organizational, and interpersonal levels in Southern Africa and beyond.…
Intersectional Passing and the Costs of Conditional Inclusion
Although inclusion is increasingly celebrated as institutional progress, individuals marked by intersecting racialized and gendered histories often experience it as conditional and extractive. This study examines how South African Indian women (SAIW) leaders navigate the affective and epistemic labor required to remain legible within institutions that promote inclusion while sustaining exclusionary norms. Drawing on in‐depth interviews with SAIW …
Types of prejudice
The anti-DEI agenda
Purpose This article aims to critically analyse and critique the impact of President Donald Trump’s second term on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives in the United States of America and beyond. It aims to document the policy changes enacted under Trump, explore the resulting consequences for various sectors (government, higher education and private sectors) and assess the broader implications for social justice and global conversat…
Decolonising management education
Decolonizing Spiritual Inclusion
Relatability as a Racialised Construct in Corporate Graduate Recruitment
In corporate graduate recruitment worldwide, candidates are often assessed not only on competence but on whether they are deemed relatable. This study theorises relatability as a racialised cultural-affective filter that covertly sustains inequality. Drawing on qualitative interviews, we identify five interlinked processes of self-presentation, confidence, bias, choice, and affinity, through which whiteness operates as a normative anchor in hirin…
Shielding labour and the temporal governance of leadership legitimacy
Purpose This study aims to examine why leadership legitimacy remains fragile for South African Black women leaders despite increased representation in senior and executive roles. Existing research has focused on access, advancement and representation, leaving under-examined how legitimacy is evaluated and withdrawn after appointment. This study frames leadership legitimacy as a process governed through ongoing evaluation shaped by historically se…
Sociology (8 obras) · Political science (6 obras) · Gender Diversity and Inequality (5 obras) · Management and Organizational Studies (4 obras) · Gender Studies (3 obras) · Global and Cross-Cultural Management (3 obras) · Law (3 obras) · Politics (3 obras) · Psychology (3 obras) · Social Psychology (3 obras)