Staff profile

Dr Apollo Nsubuga-Kyobe

Lecturer

Faculty of Business, Economics and Law

La Trobe Business School
Department of Management

DWB 323, Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

Dip. Acc. Uganda National College of Business Studies; Grad. Certificate Social Research Methods, Swinburne; Grad. Certificate Teaching & Learning, La Trobe; Grad. Diploma Personnel and Industrial Relations, PIT (RMIT); Ph.D., La Trobe.

Membership of professional Associations

Associate Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management, Member of the Asia Pacific Human Resource Institute, Fellow and Executive Member of the Asian Forum for Business Education, Vice President A

Area of study

Human Resource Management
Management

Brief Profile

Apollo is currently a lecturer in Management and has been an academic for over 14 years. He returned to the Bundoora Campus in 2009 after over ten years as a lecturer at the Shepparton campus.

Apollo is also heavily involved with Ethnic and Emerging Communities’ issues.  Apollo’s work has been presented at both national and international conferences and he has also published in international journals.  Apollo has been a spokesperson on matters of settling Sub-Sahara Africans in Victoria and is currently Vice President of the African Studies Association of Australasia and the South Pacific (AFSAAP), a professional international organisation which brings together academics located in Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific who are doing research on Africa and its people.   Prior to joining La Trobe Apollo worked for Shell Uganda Ltd. for over 13 years and was involved with the Amalgamated Transport and General Workers Union and the National Organisation of Trade Unions in Uganda. 

Teaching Units

International Management, Organisational Change and Development, Remuneration and Performance Management, Foundations of Management

Recent Publications

Refereed journal articles (ERA-ranked)

Nsubuga-Kyobe A. (2007) “Notes of Tensions in African-Australian Families”. Australasian Review of African Studies, 28(1), 97-111.

Nsubuga-Kyobe, A. (2005) ‘Bulungibwansi: A Manifestation of Workers’ Co-operatives for Uganda’. Australasian Review of African Studies, 27(1), 27-47.

Refereed journal articles (not ERA-ranked)

Nsubuga-Kyobe, A. & Sivamalai, S. (2009). “A proposal for Capacity Building in African-Australians in Goulburn Valley: A Case Study on ‘Co-Learning, Development Enhancements, and Knowledge Management for ‘Emerging Communities’ in Rural/Regional Australia”. Asian Forum for Business Education Journal (online), 2(2). 

Nsubuga-Kyobe, A. (2005). "Settling Sub-Sahara African migrants in rural Victoria". Migration Action, 27(3), 10-20.

Refereed conference proceedings

Nsubuga-Kyobe, A., Sivamalai, S., & Nanere M. (2010) “Global financial crises and its impact on rural Australians”. Proceedings from the AFBE Conference, Bogor University, Indonesia.

Sivamalai, S. & Nsubuga-Kyobe (2009) “Towards Developing Personal Attributes in ‘New’ Migrants: a Case Study of Capacity Building for Rural Australia”. Proceedings from the ‘International Unity Diversity Conference: People, the Workforce & the Future of Australia’, Townsville.

Nsubuga-Kyobe, A. & Hazelman, C. (2009) “Challenges in Supporting ‘Emerging Communities’: Goulburn Valley Experience of Settling African Communities” Proceedings from the 32nd AFSAAP Annual Conference, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane.

Wahdi Y., Nanere, M. & Nsubuga-Kyobe, A. (2006) A Comparative Study of Negotiation Styles of Education Managers in Australia and Indonesia.  Proceedings from the AFBE Conference, Hanoi Vietnam.

Books

Nsubuga-Kyobe, A. & Dimock, L. (2002). African communities and settlement services in Victoria: Towards better service delivery models. Melbourne: La Trobe Univeristy.