Ana Martins

Ana Martins holds a Ph.D. in Leadership, Organizational Behaviour, and Information Science from the University of Fernanda Pessoa, a Competent Manager diploma from the Open University, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communication Sciences, History of Art, and English Literature from the University of South Africa. She is a Professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Graduate School of Business & Leadership, South Africa. Her scholarship spans over 30 years and encompasses a range of countries, namely, the UK, South Africa, Hong Kong, China, Germany, Portugal, including the Middle East. Her research includes over 100 indexed international peer-reviewed academic journals and book chapters with Emerald, Springer, SAGE Publications, Taylor & Francis, and Palgrave Macmillan Publishing. Her key research topics embrace Emerging Concerns Related to Humanizing Leadership and Organizations. She has supervised to completion, numerous Doctoral and Masters students. She also serves as a member of the International Accreditation Agencies for Higher Education.

Publications

Contextual Influences on Leader Development Among Natural Scientists in Uganda

The study's aim is to ascertain the role of contextual influences on leader development among natural scientists in Uganda differ from those of non-scientist leaders in the...

The Quest for Organizational Value and Meaningful Work

The aim of this research was to explore the perceptions of workplace spirituality in an insurance organization undergoing change. This was a quantitative and descriptive study in...

A New Perspective in Competitiveness for Business Education: Communities of Practice – The Crystal Palace

Organizations are currently living through profound changes while dealing with the prevailing rate of information change and innovation. Alternative ways of educating...

Service Learning: The Essence of Social Inclusivity Through Transformational Education

The chapter highlights the endogenous strengths that humans have of exposing society to sustainable change. At birth, humans bring with them a triptych code including, the...

A New Perspective in Competitiveness for Business Education: Communities of Practice – The Crystal Palace

Organizations are currently living through profound changes while dealing with the prevailing rate of information change and innovation. Alternative ways of educating...

International Journal of Adult Education and Technology (IJAET)

Viktor Wang, Kristina Posavec. Est. 2020.

The International Journal of Adult Education and Technology (IJAET) provides a global look at educational technologies for adult learners in higher education with content drawing...

Service Learning: The Essence of Social Inclusivity Through Transformational Education

The chapter highlights the endogenous strengths that humans have of exposing society to sustainable change. At birth, humans bring with them a triptych code including, the...

Talent Management: Retaining Distinctive Human Capital Sustainably

Toyota South Africa Motors (TSAM) is the leading original equipment manufacturer in South Africa. Business strategy and talent management alignment is therefore the key for...

Entrepreneurship and Innovation: The Essence of Sustainable, Smart, and Inclusive Economies

The main objective of this chapter focuses on the relationship between entrepreneurship, innovation, and its effects on business sustainability. The authors reflect on the...

Demystifying Unlearning and Innovation in Higher Education Institutions

This chapter analyzes human and emotional capitals as the main source for organizational change, innovation, and learning. Individuals and teams thus have the aptitude to...

Education: Instrument for Socio-Economic and Humanizing Development

This chapter discusses the role of education in “humanizing the economy” and emphasizes its contribution to the development of a new socio-economic model that helps to overcome...

Shared Leadership and Team Performance: The Role of Emotions and Trust

This chapter contributes to the existing evidence on the constructs of shared leadership, social, and emotional capitals to demonstrate their significant galvanizing effect on...

Learning-Performance Relationship: A New Holistic, Dynamic, and Strategic Organizational Approach

Organizational learning, knowledge creation, retention, and diffusion are strategies that open many a window of opportunities for organizations to differentiate themselves in the...

Unravelling Hurdles to Organizational Sustainability by Virtue of Sharing and Creating Knowledge

The main aim of this chapter is to demonstrate the importance of innovation and creativity in nurturing organizational sustainability. Through knowledge and its sharing, the...

Holistic Education as the Conduit to Humanizing the Economy

One of the main challenges of contemporary society is its incessant focus on developing individuality and personal objectives. A shift in paradigm will remove the dominant logic...

Learning-Performance Relationship: A New Holistic, Dynamic, and Strategic Organizational Approach

Organizational learning, knowledge creation, retention, and diffusion are strategies that open many a window of opportunities for organizations to differentiate themselves in the...

A New Perspective in Competitiveness for Business Education: Communities of Practice – The Crystal Palace

Organizations are currently living through profound changes while dealing with the prevailing rate of information change and innovation. Alternative ways of educating...

Shift in Paradigm: Organizational Values and Performance

Quantum theories have become widely accepted in the fields of management and social sciences, because these theories enhance organizational sustainability. The principles of the...

Challenges Enhancing Social and Organizational Performance

A vital component in the new age organizational paradigm is evident in spiritual capital, albeit many occasions leadership overlooks its importance. Nevertheless, this spiritual...

Embracing Innovation and Creativity through the Capacity of Unlearning

The capacity for unlearning is important for organizations to embrace innovation and creativity, due to the urgent need give up obsolete knowledge. A critique of organizational...

Feedback and Feedforward Dynamics: Nexus of Organizational Learning and Leadership Self-Efficacy

This study reflects on the relationship between organizational learning and the constructs of exploration and exploitation inherent in ambidextrous learning. Extant theories...

Paths to Success: Leveraging Culture, Leadership, and Learning Strategies

The purpose of this chapter is to highlight the importance of cross cultural collaboration and leadership contextualized in a knowledge management paradigm with innovation and...

On Trust, Knowledge Sharing and Innovation

Organisations continuously innovate, create, and are competitive if they improve their performance through continuous intellectual capital development, a key resource for value...

Paths to Success: Leveraging Culture, Leadership, and Learning Strategies

The purpose of this chapter is to highlight the importance of cross cultural collaboration and leadership contextualized in a knowledge management paradigm with innovation and...

On Trust, Knowledge Sharing and Innovation

Organisations continuously innovate, create, and are competitive if they improve their performance through continuous intellectual capital development, a key resource for value...

Organisational Flexibility through Human Capital Development

The current knowledge economy has brought several challenges to contemporary organisations. There is need for flexibility on the part of key players, namely individual employees...