Colleges of Business Sciences

Francois Bester

Instructor

  • B.A. - University of Pretoria (South Africa), 1987
  • M.M. - University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa), 1991

Bio

Francois has extensive experience as an organisational change and development consultant and as a learning and development manager.  He worked for local and multi-national companies in Africa, and in the oil and gas sector in the Middle East before joining ZU.  He has acted as a personal coach to a range of executives in his career.  He also consulted to many organisations in the Middle East on organisational effectiveness, learning & development, and employee assessment.

Francois has taught courses at the Executive MBA level in Organisational Change & Development, and Organisational Behaviour.  He is currently writing his PhD thesis on the process of employee identification with work in multi-cultural organisations.

Office: Dubai Academic City, B wing – L2-044
Phone: 971 4 4021531
Email: Francois.Bester@zu.ac.ae

Teaching Areas

Bachelor of Science courses offered in Organisational Behaviour, Human Resource Management, Internships and Capstones

Research and Professional Activities

Work performance factors in multicultural contexts

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