Walter Jarvis

Senior Lecturer in Managing, Leading & Stewardship (MLS), University of Technology Sydney

Dr Walter Jarvis is a Senior Lecturer in Managing, Leading & Stewardship (MLS) and formally Director of the Master of Management program (2016-2023) at the UTS Business School.

His research investigates decision-making in business, foregrounding as a premise to management the moral-relational accountability of business leaders to regain public trust in enterprise management. In his research and teaching, he draws on 20-plus years of general management and consulting experience with local and international corporations, as well as graduate qualifications in education and management learning.

He focuses on ‘experiential’ learning to cultivate management capacities for moral judgement in business actions, which have increasingly warranted much greater public scrutiny. Accordingly, accountability for respecting human dignity and natural ecological integrity underpins public trust and confidence (Stewardship) in university-based management education. He has a strong publishing record in values-based education as central to the public purpose of universities.

Experience

1993–present

Principal and Founder, Jarvis Management Learning
2004–present

Lecturer in Management Practice, University of Technology, Sydney
1970–1993

Broad range of senior management positions - from functional roles to divisional management, including Esso (16 years to 1991).

Education

2009

University of Technology, Sydney, Doctor of Education (Dissertation: "Moral accountability in the MBA: a Kantian response to a public problem")
1998

University of Technology, Sydney, Masters in Education (Adult)
1970

University of New South Wales, Bachelor of Commerce

Research Areas

Economics, Business And Management Curriculum And Pedagogy (130203)
Ethical Theory (220305)
Social Theory (160806)
Organisation And Management Theory (150310)
Social Change (160805)
Business And Management (1503)
Comparative Economic Systems (149901)
History And Philosophy Of Education (220202)