Joanna Zaleska

Joanna is a Senior Lecturer teaching on undergraduate, master and executive MBA level in London and Dubai. She is teaching courses such as Human Resource Management (HRM), International Human Resource Management (IHRM), Cultural Intelligence (an elective in comparative OB and cross-cultural management) and Business Research Practice in London - an innovative practical course focusing on qualitative and quantitative research methods.

As course director on BSc Business Studies as well as MSc Management she has been performing duties of course level coordination, planning and oversight. In this important roles on both ranked programs she has positively influenced the enhancement of programmes curriculum, organisation as well as the quality of the student experience.

She is responsible for introduction of consultancy international field trips to emerging market economies on MBA and master programs involving Russia (St. Petersburg), Argentina (Buenos Aires), Brazil (Sao Paulo), Vietnam (Ho Chi Minh City) and to Poland (Krakow, Gdansk and Warsaw) in Cass Business School. These stimulating trips sit alongside students class teaching experience and offer an invaluable opportunity for practical tests of their learning and to broaden their understanding of global business culture.

She has received her PhD in International Management from University of Kent at Canterbury as a fellow of European Commission Programme (Market Access Europe). Since 1998 she was a research fellow at The Leading Edge Research Consortium in London Business School which focused on the alignment of business strategies with HRM. Her research interest centres on organisational justice of HR procedures, International HRM and cross-cultural management as well on skills of doing business in emerging market economies.

Qualifications

• PhD, University of Kent at Canterbury, unknown
• MA Cultural Studies, University of Poznan, unknown

Employment

• Course Director MSc Management, Cass Business School, 2013 – present
• Course Director BSc Business Studies, Cass Business School, 2010 – 2013

Languages

Polish and Russian.

Expertise

Primary Topics

• Human Resource Management
• Management Consulting
• Organizational Behaviour

• Geographic Areas

• Americas - South

• Asia - East

• Europe - Central

• Europe - Eastern

Chapters (2)

• Zaleska, K.J. (1999). Integrating case: Organisational and national cultures in a Polish/U.S. joint venture. In Cullen, J.B. and Parboteeah, K.P. (Eds.), Multinational Management: A Strategic Approach (pp. 101–107). South Western - Cengage Learning. ISBN 0-538-89034-7.
• Zaleska, K.J. (1996). Cross-cultural interaction in management between Polish and American managers. In Muller, B. (Ed.), A la recherche des certitudes perdues: anthropologie du travail et des affaires dans une Europe en mutation, Les Travaux du Centre Marc Bloch Berlin: Les Travaux du Centre Marc Bloch.

Journal Articles (4)

• Siengthai, S., Zaleska, K.J. and Kantabutra, S. (2009). Closing the Performance Evaluation Gap in SMEs in Thailand: What matters? Academy of Taiwan Business Management Review, 5(1) .
• Zaleska, K.J. and De Menezes, L.M. (2007). Human resources development practices and their association with employee attitudes: Between traditional and new careers. Human Relations, 60(7), pp. 987–1017. doi:10.1177/0018726707081155.
• Truss, C., Gratton, L., Hope-Hailey, V., Stiles, P. and Zaleska, J. (2002). Paying the piper: choice and constraint in changing HR functional roles. Human Resource Management Journal, 12(2), pp. 39–63. doi:10.1111/j.1748-8583.2002.tb00063.x.
• Zaleska, K.J. (1992). Cultural imperialism and cultural response to multinationals. Nationalism Notes pp. 23–27.

Course Directorship

• 2011 - 2014, BSc Business Studies, Director
• 2013 - present, MSc in Management, Director

Editorial Activities (4)

• Human Relations, Referee, 2005 – present.
• Human Resource Management Journal, Referee, 2005 – present.
• Long Range Planning, Referee, 2005 – present.
• Asia Pacific Business Review, Referee, 2004 – present.