Dr Lineo Dzansi
Head of Department: Business Management
Bloemfontein Campus
Qualifications: DTech (Human Resource Management, CUT) | MPA (University of the Free State) | BEd Hons (UFS) | BEd (UFS)
Professional Background
Dr Lineo Dzansi is a Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of Business Management at the Central University of Technology (CUT). She holds a Bachelor of Education and an Honours degree in Education, a Master of Public Administration from the University of the Free State, and a Doctorate in Human Resource Management from CUT. She is also a registered Chartered Human Resource Practitioner with the South African Board for People Practices (SABPP).
Dr Dzansi has extensive experience in teaching and academic management, having held various teaching and managerial positions at educational institutions in Lesotho and the North West Province before joining CUT in 2008. She actively teaches Human Capital Development at Advanced Diploma and Postgraduate Diploma levels and contributes to postgraduate research through the supervision of Master’s and Doctoral students. She is deeply passionate about establishing strategic partnerships with external stakeholders, industry, and professional bodies to create meaningful opportunities for Work-Integrated Learning (WIL), internships, and graduate placements, thereby strengthening the link between academia and industry.
Areas of Expertise
- • Human Capital Development
- • Organisational Justice
- • Public Sector Human Resource Management
- • Strategic Planning
- • Strategic Partnerships and Work-Integrated Learning (WIL)
Selected Publications
- • Dzansi, L.W. (2016). A South African study of the influence of fairness of HRM practices on service quality. Journal of Applied Business Research, 32(3).
- • Ketchiwou, G.F., Naong, M.N., van der Walt, F., & Dzansi, L.W. (2022). Investigating the relationship between selected organisational factors and women’s skills development and career progression. SA Journal of Human Resource Management, 20.
- • Honu, E.K., Dzansi, D.Y., Dzansi, L.W., & Boemah, K.K. (2024). Does organisational justice ignite employee happiness and citizenship behaviour? International Journal of Applied Research in Business and Management, 5(1).
- • Adiasany, L., Chipunza, C., Dzansi, L.W., & Adewumi, S. (2024). Employee engagement in Ghana’s higher education institutions: A systematic literature review. International Journal of Business Ecosystem & Strategy, 6(6), 133–147.
- • Raliphaswa, F., Dzansi, D.Y., & Dzansi, L.W. (2025). Reassessing procedural justice and workplace deviance: The unexpected role of gender and tenure. International Journal of Applied Research in Business and Management, 6(1).