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Professor Gregory Lee

Digital Business
Human Resources and Organisational Behaviour

Job Title
Associate Professor
Qualifications PhD, Wits.
Organisational Unit Wits Business School
Biography

Courses and Disciplines taught at WBS: 

Gregory Lee teaches in the digital business area, notably in digital technology fundamentals but also more general Digital Business courses.

Other Teaching Experience: 

Gregory has taught extensively in human resource management and talent management (with an emphasis on HR analytics), and in the general business analytics area. 

Research Interests: 

Digital business, gamification, HR analytics.

Work

Industry and Professional Experience: 

Registered Master HR Practitioner with the SABPP; Gregory has consulted widely to industry in areas ranging from transformation and change to HR analytics and HRM strategy.

Recent Publications and Scholarly Contributions: 

Armstrong, B. & Lee, G. J. (2021). Digital business. Silk Route Press.

Armstrong, B. & Lee, G. J. (2021). A Digital business primer. Silk Route Press.

Lee, G. J. (2020). Employee training and development as an antecedent of firm customer capabilities: Longitudinal moderation by firm size and market type. Journal of African Business, 21(4), 462-475.

Lee, G. J. (2019). Designing organizations for people-led sustainable competitiveness. Silk Route Press.

Lee, G. J., & Davison, A. H. (2018). Designing payroll levies for firm training. International Journal of Manpower, 39(6), 766-781.

Lee, G. J. (2018). Talent measurement: A holistic model and routes forward. South African Journal of Human Resource Management, 16, 1-11.

Other Scholarly Contributions: 

Previously, Assistant Dean of Faculty, Academic Director of Wits Business School; Editorial board member of various scholarly journals; Mentor for the Academy of Management Leadership field mentoring programme; GLOBE country co-investigator.

Community Engagement:

Vice Chair, SABPP research board.

International Experience: 

Visiting Associate, Florida International University, (2016); Readership, University of Bristol, UK (2005-2008).

Personal Information

Gregory John Lee

Gregory Lee

I am an Associate Professor and the Research Director at the AMBA-rated Wits Business School in South Africa.

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Activities

Employment 1
Toggle ORCID item details 2010-07-01 to present | Associate Professor & Research Director (Wits Business School) Employment
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2010-07-01 to present
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Wits Business School
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University of the Witwatersrand
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Johannesburg-Braamfontein, ZA
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Education and Qualifications 1
Toggle ORCID item details 2005-01-01 to 2008-08-01 | PhD (University of the Witwatersrand) Education
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2005-01-01 to 2008-08-01
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PhD
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Works 22
Toggle ORCID item details Deepfake Impersonation of Organizational Decision-Makers in Organizational Meetings 2026 Preprint
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2026
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10.2139/ssrn.6396536
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Toggle ORCID item details Training match and mismatch as a driver of key employee behaviours Human Resource Management Journal Journal Article
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2015-11
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Human Resource Management Journal
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10.1111/1748-8583.12069
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Toggle ORCID item details Seeking rigor in South African business research: Aspirational principles in contrast to a recent publication South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences Journal Article
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2014
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South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences
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Lee, G. (2014). Seeking rigor in South African business research: Aspirational principles in contrast to a recent publication. South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences, 17(4), 501-514.
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Toggle ORCID item details Synthesis between leadership behaviours and principal-agent theory South African Business Review Journal Article
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2013
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South African Business Review
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Lee, G. (2013) Synthesis between leadership behaviours and principal-agent theory, South African Business Review, 17(3), 101-130.
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Toggle ORCID item details Firm size and the effectiveness of training for customer service 2012 Journal Article
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2012
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0958-5192
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10.1080/09585192.2011.637065
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Toggle ORCID item details Firm size and the effectiveness of training for customer service 2012 Journal Article
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Toggle ORCID item details HR Metrics: Strategic and Quantitative Tools for People Management 2011 Book
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2011
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Lee, G.J. (2011). HR Metrics: Strategic and Quantitative Tools for People Management. Knowledge Resources.
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Toggle ORCID item details Mirror, mirror: preferred leadership characteristics of South African managers 2011 Journal Article
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2011
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0143-7720
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Toggle ORCID item details Mirror, mirror: Preferred leadership characteristics of South African managers 2011 Journal Article
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Toggle ORCID item details Assessing publication performance of research units: Extensions through operational research and economic techniques Scientometrics Journal Article
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2010
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Scientometrics
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Lee, G.J. (2010). ‘Assessing publication performance of research units: Extensions through operational research and economic techniques’, Scientometrics , 84(3): 717-734.
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Toggle ORCID item details Assessing publication performance of research units: Extensions through operational research and economic techniques 2010 Journal Article
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2010
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Toggle ORCID item details Employee Flow as an Integrated and Qualitative System: Impact on Business-to-Business Service Quality 2010 Journal Article
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2010
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Toggle ORCID item details Employee flow as an integrated and qualitative system: Impact on business-to-business service quality 2010 Journal Article
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Toggle ORCID item details Boundary management of employees' non-work lives: Effects on South African workers' commitment 2009 Journal Article
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2009
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Toggle ORCID item details Operational research and sustainable development: Tackling the social dimension 2009 Journal Article
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2009
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0377-2217
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Toggle ORCID item details Operational research and sustainable development: Tackling the social dimension 2009 Journal Article
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Toggle ORCID item details Perceptions of workplace issues among blue-collar workers in South Africa's Gauteng Province 2006 Journal Article
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@article { lee2006,title = {Perceptions of workplace issues among blue-collar workers in South Africa's Gauteng Province},journal = {South African Journal of Psychology},year = {2006},volume = {36},number = {1},pages = {45-62},author = {Lee, G.J. and Mohamed, Y.}}
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Toggle ORCID item details Mobley revisited: dynamism in the process of employee turnover 2005 Journal Article
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2005
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Toggle ORCID item details Mobley revisited: Dynamism in the process of employee turnover 2005 Journal Article
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Toggle ORCID item details Transactional and relational aspects of the psychological contracts of temporary workers 2005 Journal Article
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2005
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Toggle ORCID item details Training Utility and Levy-Grant Incentives 2003 Journal Article
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2003
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Toggle ORCID item details Reviewing the economics of the skills development levy: A political non-sequitur? South African Journal of Labour Relations Journal Article
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2002
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South African Journal of Labour Relations
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