Senior Lecturer in Organisational Psychology

Dr Diale-Maketla is registered as an Industrial Psychologist with the Health Profession Council of South Africa.

Telephone: +27 46 603 7379

Email:  C.Diale@ru.ac.za 

Profile

Dr Diale-Maketla trained as an Industrial Psychologist trainee at the Military Psychological Institute (Department of Defense), which led to registration as an Industrial Psychologist after passing HPCSA board exam. She has also gained experience in Local Government, Mercedes Benz, Child Welfare Tshwane as well as tutoring experience at UNISA within Industrial and Organisational Psychology Department before joining Rhodes University. In 2018 Dr Diale-Maketla participated in staff exchange programme funded by EU Erasmus in support to visit Leicester University in the United Kingdom. Below are summary roles, Ms Diale_Maketla is responsible for:

• Human Resource Psychology second year
• Career Psychology third year
• Career and Personnel Psychology Honours

Educational Background

Bcom Industrial & Organisational Psychology

Bcom Hons in Industrial and Organisational Psychology (UNISA); Mcom Industrial Psychology (University of Pretoria)

PhD in Psychology within the subject of Industrial and Organisational Psychology (Unisa)

Her PhD focused on multi- disciplinary in Industrial  Engineering, Industrial Psychology, Green Economy and Entrepreneurship

Research Interests:  

Green economy, System dynamics, Entrepreneurship, Organisational Development, Organisational Behavior, Leadership, Personnel Psychology, Human Resource Psychology, Diversity Management, Transformation, Ubuntu/Botho in the workplace, Strategic Human Resource, Employee and Organisational Wellbeing, Assessments and Career Counselling, guidance and management, Renewable Energy, Ergonomics, Environmental Psychology.

Post graduate supervision to completion 

Masters and PhD supervision to completion

• Supervised 3 Masters by Thesis/ MA  to completion on her own (100% research).
• Co-supervised PhD student to completion 

 Honours supervision to completion 

• Supervised and graduated 15 honours students to completion.

Current supervision 

• Currently supervising 7 Masters by thesis students (100% research)

Research Publications

Diale C.D., & Carrim, M. (2022) Experiences of Black African women entrepreneurs in the South African male-dominated entrepreneurial environments. Journal of Psychology in Africa, 32 pp 216–223, DOI:10.1080/14330237.2021.2018109

Diale, C. D., Kanakana-Katumba, M. G., Maladzhi, R. W., von der Ohe, H., Diale, C. D., & Kanakana-Katumba, G. M. Ecosystem for 4th Industrial Revolution to Accelerate Sustainable Development Goals in the South African Context: A Conceptual Framework.

Diale D. (2022). Contextualising the determinants of job embeddedness in the higher learning institution with the lenses of African culture. International Journal of Innovation, Creativity and change 16. 474-491.

Diale D. (2022). Sense of Community: Perceptions of “Inter-Intra” Collaborations in an Academic Environment through the Lenses of Botho Principles and the Field of industrial Psychology. International Journal of Higher Education. Sciedu publisher

Diale, C.D., Kanakana-Katumba, M.G., Maladzhi RW (2021) Ecosystem of Renewable Energy Enterprises for Sustainable Development: A Systematic Review, Advances in Science, Technology and Engineering Systems Journal, 6, (1) 401-408 [Scopus Indexed]

Diale, C.D., Kanakana-Katumba, M.G., Maladzhi RW (2021)Environmental Entrepreneurship as an Innovation Catalyst for Social Change: A Systematic Review as a Basis for Future Research, Advances in Science, Technology and Engineering Systems Journal, 6 (1) 393-400.  [Scopus Indexed]

Diale, C. D., Kanakana-Katumba, G., & Maladzhi, R. W. (2019, December). Green Entrepreneurship Model Utilising the System Dynamics Approach: A Review. In 2019 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM) (pp. 384-389). IEEE.

Research, Symposium and conference presentations

Participated and presented an accredited conference proceeding in the 3rd African International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management

Nsukka, Nigeria, April 5-7, 2022

Host: University of Nigeria, Nsukka

Dr Diale Magetla participated in an accredited conference hosted by Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineers during the year 2022 leading to two additional accredited conference proceeding. Durban

Participated and presented at the 1st annualFrench South Africa Science Innovation days in 2019 within the fields of environmental entrepreneurship, system dynamics and renewable energy.

Presented the oral Paper on Green entrepreneurship model utilizing the system dynamics approach a review in 2019 in China Macau

Presented at the HELTASA conference with the topic Sense of innovation: Teaching with technology as an    additional mechanism or a replacement in higher learning institution in 2019.

Presented a paper Away with pots: Black African women in South African male dominated entrepreneurial environments paper presented at 20th annual conference for the Society of Industrial and Organisational Psychology. The art of Collaboration: complexity and uncertainty, capability and a collaborative enterprise, cooperation and coordination within social processes.   Pretoria.

Presented at the 1st annual virtual SIOPSA conference in 2020 with the topic Exploration of Industrial Psychologist's role in a period of transitioning into green economy: A selected review’. SIOPSA Leading through innovation, navigating the new world of work

 Academic citizenship (leadership and management roles)

• Member of Humanities Faculty Board meeting.
• Faculty of Humanities teaching and learning representative.
• Mentor on SIOPSA emerging Black Industrial Psychologist.
• Member of entrepreneurial committee internally as well as externally i.e EDHE.
• Occasional reader and reviewer on Departmental ethics committee.
• General Psychology 2 Course Coordinator from 2017-2019
• Organisational Psychology Honours Course Coordinator with effect from 2021
• Disability (Enable) committee member
• Digital transformation committee member
• Digital literacy committee member
• Writing literacy ambassador 
• Academic selection committee member
• External examiner and moderator both undergraduate and post graduate in the field of Industrial and Organisational Psychology and MBA.
• Informally mentoring students and members of the community including church members

Additional on the Job training

• Catalyst assessors course attended and certified as competent completed in first 6 months after joining Rhodes facilitated by Rhodes University.
• Doctoral Supervision course- First collaboration course between Africa and Europe in strengthening post graduate supervision attended and certified as competent in 2020 completed within 3 months facilitated by Rhodes University and partners from various neighboring African countries and Europe.
• Community based service learning course attended and certified competent in 2019 within 3 months facilitated by Rhodes University.
• Writing in academia course attended in 2019.
• APIL B Psychometric test training by Apro-lab attended and accredited to use.
• Learning potential computerised adaptive testing (LPCAT) Psychometric test training attended and accredited to use.
• Cognitive Process Profile (CPP) by Cognadev attended and accredited to use.

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