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Associate Professor Ts Dr Tan Kian Lam (Andrew)

Associate Professor Dr. Dewi A. Sapuan, MCMI

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Professional Body Membership

American Psychological Association (APA), British Society of Criminology (BSC), Chartered Manager, Chartered Institute of Management (CMI), Qualitative Research Association of Malaysia (QRAM)

Course Development Experience

  • Organisational Behaviour
  • Managerial Leadership
  • Organisational Psychology
  • Organisational Theory and Structure
  • Organisational Management

Profile

Dewi holds a PhD (Management) and an MBA specialising in Facilities Management and Environmental Economics (UTS) from Universiti Tun Abdul Razak. She is currently pursuing an MSt in Applied Criminology, Penology and Management from the University of Cambridge.

Before joining WOU, Dewi was a Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Business at Universiti Tun Abdul Razak, and has held several administrative positions over her two decades in academia. She started her career as an auditor at RSM Robert Teo Kwan & Co., then worked in Fleet Services at the Malaysia International Shipping Corporation Berhad after completing her studies at the Malaysia Maritime Academy.

Dewi is an experienced qualitative researcher. Her research interest is in the paradox of human experience, human performance as well prison studies. She has published on learning and teaching in higher education, emotional labour, entrepreneurship, and managerial leadership.

Selected Publications

  • Cheah U-Meng, Indiran, L., Krishnan, A., & Sapuan D. A. (2023). The agility and compassionate leadership of the next normal. Malaysian Management Journal (MMJ), 27, 135-160.SN: 1823-8521.
  • Dewi Amat Sapuan, Md Azlin Md Said, & Roshana Alma Mohd Ali. (2019). Strategies for a sustainable future in STEM Higher Education. In Catarina Tully & Samsinar Md Sidin. (Ed.), Rethinking higher education in Malaysia: Strategic foresight – Addressing critical factors to 2030, 123-149. Kuala Lumpur: Amanie Media. ISBN 978-967-22741-8-6
  • Dewi A. Sapuan (2008). The antinomy of a dropout phenomenon: a qualitative synthesis of Durkheim’s Suicide and Allport’s Propriate Functioning theories. The International Journal of Interdiciplinary Social Science, 3(1), 204-211.

Honorary Appointments and Awards

  • Best Professor for Organisational Behaviour at the 2019 10th Asia Education Excellence Awards
  • Women Leadership Award, 2014 World Women Leadership Congress
  • Best Professor in Management Award, 2012 World Education Congress
  • Outstanding Contribution (Research & Publication) 2005 Universiti Tun Abdul Razak