Faculty

Dr Steven Segal

Senior Lecturer in Management

BA (Wits), BA Honours (RAU), BA Honours (Wits), MA (Wits), PhD (Wits)

Teaching Areas

• People & Organisations

Research Area Affiliations

• Reflective Practice

Contact Details
Phone:  +61 2 9850 9907
Email:    steven.segal@mgsm.edu.au

Research Statement

Dr Segal’s research is concerned with integrating management theory and practice, focusing on disclosing new worlds of possibility. He especially makes explicit the cognitive and emotional elements of the process of reflection.  He illustrates how sustained opportunities for reflection drive self-development through emotional states to which managerial theory or practice has traditionally paid scant attention, such as surprise, shock, perplexity, curiosity, and wonder.

Contribution to Management Education

Dr Segal is exploring the power of reflective moods within the context of executive coaching. Executive coaching is a particular kind of practice of reflection. He is in the process of writing a manuscript on executive coaching from a manager’s perspective in which he is arguing that just like coaching, management is centrally a conversational practice, which opens up new possibilities for being and educating managers.

Contribution to Management Practice

South Africa is in the process of transformation from authoritarian to democratic forms of government, interpersonal relations and schooling.  Dr Segal contributed to a project developing situational appropriate courses and course material to facilitate this transformation. The action-research project involved reflection both on the implementation of the course and on the process through which the course was designed.

media topics

• Interpretative and Critical Approaches to Leadership and Organisational Practices
• Diversity in Management and Culture

 

publications

journal articles

• Segal, S. (2011). A Heideggerian Perspective on the Relationship Between Mintzberg's distinction between engaged and disconnected management: the role of uncertainty in management. Journal of Business Ethics, 103 (3), 469-483.
• Rolfe, B., & Segal, S. (2011). Opening the Space of the Project Manager: A phenomenological approach. Philosophy of Management, 10 (1), 43-60.
• Segal, S. (2010). A Heideggerian approach to practice-based reflexivity. Management Learning, 41 (4), 379-389.
• Segal, S. (2006). Disrupted conventions or diseased selves: The relationship between philosophical and psychotherapeutic forms of questioning. Philosophical Practice, 2 (1), 41-55.
• Segal, S. (2006). Narcissism, Nationalism and Philosophy in Heidegger. Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology, 5 (2).

books

• Segal, S. (2005). Business Feel: From the Science of Management to the Philosophy of Leadership, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan.

conference papers

• Segal, S. (2010). Spirit and being in management: A Heideggerian redescription of Drucker. Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference, Adelaide, Australia.
• Segal, S. (2010). The relation between care and technique in the context of management: A Heideggerian Perspective. Academy of Management Conference, Montreal, Canada.
• Segal, S. (2009). A Heideggerian Perspective on the Relationship Between Care and Technique in Management, Nursing and Leadership. Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference, Melbourne, Australia.
• Rolfe, B. & Segal, S. (2009). Opening the Space of the Project Manager. 5th International Critical Managment Studies Conference, Warwick, UK.