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Dr. Tiyesere Mercy Chikapa

SENIOR LECTURER
Management and Leadership Studies

Research Areas

Human Resource Management, Gender and Governance , Public Administration ,

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Dr. Tiyesere Mercy Chikapa is a Senior Lecturer of Public Administration and Human Resource Management and Head of Department of Management and Leadership Studies, University of Malawi. She is currently a Post Doctoral Fellow at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies. She has served as Head of the Department of Political and Administrative Studies at Chancellor College between 2011 and 2013, during which she led a team that bid for a NORHED funding for a project titled ‘Strengthening capacity for democratic and economic governance in Malawi’ that has seen the department earn funding large enough to introduce a Masters degree in Public Administration and Management, and engage in research for 5 years, from 2014 to 2019. In July 2018, she was awarded a PhD in Business and Management from the Alliance Manchester Business School of the University of Manchester in the UK. Through her PhD research, by considering how specific Human Resource Management processes like recruitment, selection and promotion contribute to men and women’s career trajectories as well as the different experiences between men and women in formal employment, this gave Dr. Chikapa an understanding of how implementation of these processes (in a particular cultural context) contribute to the gender differences that exist in private and public organisations. Some of these aspects related to sexual harassment that mostly women faced, and gender-based discrimination (against women) in recruitment and promotion. This provided her with first-hand experience with gender equality and gender mainstreaming efforts in both government and private sector organizations and why these efforts are not yielding the intended results. Tiyesere also possesses a Master’s degree in Human Resource Management from the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom and Bachelor of Arts in Public administration from the University of Malawi. She is a qualified trainer, researcher and consultant in the field of human resource management, political science and public administration with specific focus on gender and governance, employment policies, processes and practices, inter alia. Tiyesere has also conducted a number of consultancies and research in different areas that have employed qualitative and basic quantitative methods. This means that Tiyesere is competent in the analysis of both qualitative and quantitative data.

Publications

  • Journal Article
    Chikapa, T.M (2026) The public employer as an architect of gender and class inequalities in Malawi’s teaching career, Malawi Journal of Social Science (still in press) (2026)
  • Journal Article
    Chirwa, G.C., Kachola, S., Chinstanya, J., Mwale, M., Kayuni, H., Chikapa, T, Kaombe T.(2026) The Association of Titukulane on resilience and food security in Malawian Communities, Malawian Journal of Social Sciences, (In press) (2026)
  • Journal Article
    Chintsanya, J., Chirwa G., Chatata,A.G., Kachola, S., Chikapa, T., Mwale, M., Kaombe,T. (2026-In Press) Factors Influencing Intended Antenatal Care Utilization in Malawi: A mixed methods approach of Maternal Health outcomes in Mangochi and Zomba districts, Malawi, Malawi Journal of Social Science(In Press) (2026)
  • Book
    Chikapa, T.M and Chipeka, P(2025)(eds) Human Resource Management Handbook Volume II (in press) (2025)
  • Book Chapters
    Chikapa-Jamali, T.M(2025) Academic Freedom Struggle and Employee Commitment at the University of Malawi in Y.Ndasauka and Kamchedzera G. Academic Freedom in Africa The Struggle Rages On (2025)
    https://www.routledge.com/Academic-Freedom-in-Africa-The-Struggle-Rages-On/Ndasauka-Kamchedzera/p/book/9781032850450
  • Book Chapters
    Chikapa T.M.(2025) Human Resource Management in Malawi in D. Mpabanga and L.Dzimbiri (eds), People Management Policies and Practices in Southern Africa, Edward Elgar Publishing (2025)
    https://www.elgaronline.com/search?q1=PEOPLE+MANAGEMENT+POLICIES&searchBtn=
  • Conference Proceedings
    Mchenga, C., Dzimbiri, L.B., Chikapa-Jamali, T.(2025) The Correlation between Organisation and Employees' Key performance targets and weighted scores in enhancing public service delivery: The 2015-2022 Malawi Statutory Corporations' Lessons, Conference Proceedings for the 10th Annual International Conference on Public Administration and Development Alternatives. (2025)
  • Journal Article
    Chikapa T.M, Rubery, J and Tavora, I(2024) The Makeshift Careers of Women in Malawi: Neither Traditional Nor Flexible, Work, Employment and Society, 38(5), 1357-1378 (2024)
    https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/09500170231198736?af=R&ai=1gvoi&mi=3ricys
  • Book Chapters
    Dzimbiri, L and Chikapa- Jamali( 2024) PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS AND THEIR UTILITY IN THE MALAWI PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTOR in DEVELOPMENT AND PUBLIC ISSUES IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA: THE 21ST CENTURY IMPERATIVES BK Sebake and P. Hlongwane(eds) Batalea Publishers. pp97-109 (2024)
  • Book Chapters
    KANYATULA, P. CHIKAPA-JAMALI, T.M, THINDWA, E( 2024) ANALYSING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS COURT IN LABOUR DISPUTE SETTLEMENT IN B.K Sebake and P. Hlongwane (EDS) DEVELOPMENT AND PUBLIC ISSUES IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA: THE 21ST CENTURY IMPERATIVES EDITORS, Batalea Publishers (2024)
  • Book Chapters
    Chikapa-Jamali(2023)Fresh Presidential Election in Malawi, June 2020: Implications on Malawi’s Democracy in Tendai Chari and Patrick Dzimiri(eds) Military, Politics and Democratization in Southern Africa, pp 153-146, Nature Springer (2023)
    https://dokumen.pub/military-politics-and-democratization-in-southern-africa-the-quest-for-political-transition-advances-in-african-economic-social-and-political-development-3031352289-9783031352287.html
  • Book Chapters
    Chikap,a T.M., Sambo, G, Chihana, L( 2022), "A Comparative Analysis of Campaign Strategies Among Female Candidates in Malawi" in B.K. Sebake, T. Molokwane, M.Hussein and A.Nduhura( eds) Public Management and Administration in Africa: The Quest for Resilience in Uncertain Times (2022)
  • Journal Article
    Chikapa, T.M (2021) Gender culture and Malawian women’s reconciliation of work and family responsibilities: Gender in Management: An International Journal, 36(4):n 449-463 (2021)
    https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/GM-11-2019-0227/full/html?skipTracking=true#:~:text=Firstly%2C%20as%20was%20the%20case,mothers%20(GOM%2C%202012a).
  • Book Chapters
    Chikapa, T. M (2019), “Reconciliation of work and family responsibilities among women in teaching, finance, and insurance organisations in Malawi”, in Sebola, M.P., Molokwane, T., Kayuni, H. (Ed), Governance, Reforms and Public Affairs: Cases from Southern Africa, Batalea Publishers, Polokwane, pp. 253-268. (2019)