Staff profile

Dr Jan Schapper

Senior Lecturer

Faculty of Business, Economics and Law

La Trobe Business School
Department of Management

Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

BA Dip Ed (La Trobe), PhD (Monash)

Membership of professional associations

Program co-chair, CMS Division of Academy of Management

Area of study

Management

Brief profile

Jan's recent teaching and research interests have coalesced around the two major areas of ethics and corporate social responsibility. She has also an abiding interest in teaching and learning which has developed into a substantial area of  research and supervision. Her current projects include ethics and HR, international education and governance and accountability.

Research interests

Business Ethics

- HR and Business Ethics

Business ethics/ Corporate Social Responsibility

- CSR and organisational change

Corporations and Corporate Governance

- Higher education/ International students

Teaching units

BUA5VDE - Values, Diversity and Ethics

BUA5HER - Human Resource Management and Employee Relations

BUA5BIS - Business in Society

Recent publications

Selected refereed journals

Jack, G., Greenwood, M. & Schapper, J. (2012) Frontiers, intersections and engagements of ethics and HRM. Journal of Business Ethics. 111 (1), 1-12.

Paltridge, T., Mayson, S. & Schapper, J. (2012). Covering the gap: Social inclusion, international students and the role of local government, Australian Universities Review. 54 (2), 29 -39.

Mayson, S. & Schapper, J. (2012). Constructing teaching and research relations from the top: an analysis of senior manager discourses on research-led teaching. Higher Education. 64 (4), 473 - 487.

Schapper, J. (2012). The writing is on the wall: The text (ure) of toilets. Gender, Place and Culture. 19 (4), 494-517.

Stubbs, W. & Schapper, J. (2011). Grass root approaches to equip work-ready students for sustainability and CSR, International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education. 12 (3), 259 -268. Emerald Literati Highly Commended Paper 2012.

Paltridge, T., Mayson, S. & Schapper, J. (2010). The contribution of university accommodation to international student security. Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 32 (4), 353 -364.

Schapper, J. & Chan, S. (2010). What is wrong with food waste? Food Australia. July.

Schapper, J. & Mayson, S. (2010) Research-led teaching: Moving from a fractured engagement to a marriage of convenience. Journal of Higher Education and Research Development. 29 (6), 641-651.

Burns, P. & Schapper, J. (2008). Doing well: The ethical case for  Affirmative Action. Journal of Business Ethics, 83, 369-379.

Selected international conferences

Wolfram Cox, J.; Schapper, J. & Caillard, G. (2011). Policing practise: Professionalisms, uniform (ity) and the masculine ideal. Eastern Academy of Management, Boston, May. Nominated for Outstanding Empirical Paper Award.

Mayson, S. & Schapper, J. (2010). Talking about research-led teaching: A discourse analysis. HERDSA Annual Conference, Melbourne, July.

Kaur, J. & Schapper, J. (2010). The impact of economic policy on reshaping higher education in Malaysia. HERDSA Annual Conference, Melbourne, July.

Wolfram Cox, J & Schapper, J. (2010). Looking the part:  Choice, change and control in contemporary policing. SCOS Annual Conference, Lille, July. 

Wolfram Cox, J, Hughes, O. & Schapper, J. (2009). Governance and goodness in the public arena ANZAM Annual Meeting, Melbourne, 2-4 December.