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Associate professor Edwina Pio
Associate Professor (Management)
Phone: +64 9 921 9999 ext: 5130
Email: edwina.pio@aut.ac.nz
Biography:
Edwina Pio is an Associate Professor at the Business School of AUT University, Auckland, NZ and Visiting Professor at Boston College, Massachusetts, USA, with research interests at the intersection of management, ethnicity, wisdom and pedagogy. Embodying her passion for interdisciplinary scholarship, her current emphasis is on ethnicity in universities and the perceptions of academic and non-academic staff, ethnic entrepreneurship and Eastern/Indigenous wisdom. Edwina has a PhD in Buddhist Psychology, a Masters degree in Psychology, and a double Bachelor’s degree – one in Psychology and the other in Education. She also a certificate in Personal and Institutional Transformation and is a registered Counsellor with the New Zealand Association of Counsellors.
Her accolades include the Duke of Edinburgh Fellowship and Research Fellowships at Boston College and at Jonkoping International Business School, Sweden. She is on the Board of the MPhil/PhD Committee of the Business School at AUT University, and of Home & Family Counselling, Auckland. She works with women and children of domestic violence on a voluntary basis and is registered with the NZ Association of Counsellors. She has received media attention for her research and her role as an ethnic minority educator and writer, and has been interviewed and featured on New Zealand TV, BBC radio, RadioNZ, the New Zealand Herald and New Zealand Management. In leading people to the thresholds of their minds, she travels extensively to Europe, North America, Asia and Australia and interacts with diverse audiences in the academic, corporate and social sector.
Edwina is a member of the Gender and Diversity Research Interest Group and the New Zealand Work & Labour Market Institute at AUT University. She has won awards at the Academy of Management and the Society for Global Business and Economic Development and has been a visiting professor at Boston College USA , a visiting academic at Cambridge University, UK and has had a research fellowship at Jonkoping International Business School, Sweden.
In 2008 her book “Sari: Indian women at work in New Zealand” was released by John Key, the current Prime Minister of New Zealand. In 2010 her next book "Longing & Belonging" was released at Te Papa Wellington on Race Relations Day by the Office of Ethnic Affairs.
Her accolades include the Duke of Edinburgh Fellowship and Research Fellowships at Boston College and at Jonkoping International Business School, Sweden. She is on the Board of the MPhil/PhD Committee of the Business School at AUT University, and of Home & Family Counselling, Auckland. She works with women and children of domestic violence on a voluntary basis and is registered with the NZ Association of Counsellors. She has received media attention for her research and her role as an ethnic minority educator and writer, and has been interviewed and featured on New Zealand TV, BBC radio, RadioNZ, the New Zealand Herald and New Zealand Management. In leading people to the thresholds of their minds, she travels extensively to Europe, North America, Asia and Australia and interacts with diverse audiences in the academic, corporate and social sector.
Edwina is a member of the Gender and Diversity Research Interest Group and the New Zealand Work & Labour Market Institute at AUT University. She has won awards at the Academy of Management and the Society for Global Business and Economic Development and has been a visiting professor at Boston College USA , a visiting academic at Cambridge University, UK and has had a research fellowship at Jonkoping International Business School, Sweden.
In 2008 her book “Sari: Indian women at work in New Zealand” was released by John Key, the current Prime Minister of New Zealand. In 2010 her next book "Longing & Belonging" was released at Te Papa Wellington on Race Relations Day by the Office of Ethnic Affairs.
Teaching Areas:
Expertise in Degree and Postgraduate Teaching
- Workplace Diversity
- Management, Spirituality and Wisdom
- Human Resource Management
- Training and Development
Research areas:
- Ethnic Minorities in Work and Enterprise
- Eastern & Indigenous Wisdom at Work
- Management Education & Development
Research Summary:
Interests in Research Supervision- Ethnic entrepreneurship
- Migrant Women in work and enterprise
- Spiritual Capital and Wisdom in organizations
- Workplace Diversity
- Management Education & Development
Current Research Projects:
- Eastern & Indigenous Perspectives on Wisdom at Work
- Migrant Women in work and enterprise
- Ethnicity in Universities: perceptions of academic and allied staff
- Indentured Indian labour in Fiji
Publications:
Selected Publications- Pio, E. (2011). Caste Away? Unfolding the Maori Indian. Office of Ethnic Affairs: Wellington.
- Spiller, C., Pio, E., Erakovic, L. and Henare, M. (2011). Wise up: Creating organizational wisdom through an ethic of kaitiakitanga. Journal of Business Ethics, DOI: 10.1007/s10551-011-0905-y.
- Pio, E. (2010). Longing & Belonging: Asians, Middle Eastern, Latin American and African peoples in New Zealand. Wellington: Dunmore.
- Syed, J. & Pio, E. (2010). Veiled Diversity? Workplace Experiences of Muslim Women in Australia, Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 27 (1), 115-137 (ISSN 1572-9958).
- Pio, E. (2010). Nuzzling Nuances? The Asian Diaspora in New Zealand. In M. Ozbilgin & J. Syed (Eds). Managing Cultural Diversity in Asia: A Research Companion. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar (pp. 482-503) ISBN: 10: 1849800944.
- Pio, E. (2010). Religious Merchants? Entrepreneurship in India. In L-P Dana (Ed.). Entrepreneurship and Religion. (pp. 27-42), MA: Edward Elgar. ISBN 978 1 84720 572 8.
- Pio, E. (2008). Sari: Indian Women at work in New Zealand. Wellington:Dunmore.
- Pio, E. (2007). Gurus and Indian Epistemologies: Parables of Labour Intensive Organizations. Journal of Management Inquiry, 16 (2), 180-192. (ISSN 1552-6542).
- Pio, E. (2007). Ethnic entrepreneurship among Indian women in New Zealand: A Bittersweet process. Gender, Work & Organisation, 14 (5), 409-432. (ISSN 0968-6673).
- Pio, E. (2007). International Briefing 17: Training and development in New Zealand. International Journal of Training and Development, 11, (1), 71-83 (ISSN 1360-3736).
- Pio, E. (2007). Inspirational Parables in the Multiethnic Swirl. In Beich, E. (Ed.). 90 World Class Activities by 90 World Class Trainers. San Francisco: Pfeiffer/Jossey-Bass, pp.135-142.
- Pio, E. (2005). Knotted strands: Working lives of Indian women migrants in New Zealand. Human Relations, 58 (10), 1277-1299. (ISSN 0018-7267).
Last updated: 15 Dec 2011 10:15am