FRANK HORWITZ BA(SocSci) HDPM MPM PhD
Director of Cranfield School of Management
Frank Horwitz was appointed Director of Cranfield School of Management and Professor in April 2009.
He was previously, Director of the Graduate School of Business (GSB) University of Cape Town (UCT) from January 2004, having been a senior member of faculty for some 23 years. During this time, GSB achieved full EQUIS (EFMD) accreditation (5 years), the School’s MBA programme attained a Financial Times top 100 ranking for 5 consecutive years and its executive programmes were in the Economist’s top 12.
Frank specialises in human resources management, organisation change and industrial relations. He has been a Visiting Professor at the Rotterdam School of Management (RSM) Erasmus University in the Netherlands, Nanyang Business School in Singapore, University of Calgary, Canada and research associate of the Industrial Relations Centre, Griffith University, Australia. He has some ten years executive experience with AECI and ICI in England. He has lived and worked on 4 different continents.
He has over 90 refereed articles, books and book chapters, locally and internationally, in journals such as Business in the Contemporary World, Human Resource Management Journal, International Journal of Cross-Cultural Management (IJCCM), Journal of International Compensation and Benefits, International Journal of Human Resource Management (IJHRM), International Journal of Manpower, Industrial Relations Journal (IRJ), Journal of European Industrial Training (JEIT), Personnel Review, Public Administration and Development and the Work Flexibility Review.
He is on the editorial boards of the IJHRM, IJCCM, JEIT, Corporate Governance and other leading international and local journals. In 2007 and 2008, he received the Emerald Literati Network ‘Outstanding Reviewer Award’ for his work on the editorial boards of the Journal of European Industrial Training and Corporate Governance - The International Journal of Business and Society. His article: “The emergence of Strategic Training and Development: the current state of play”, published in the Journal of European Industrial Training, was rated the third most frequently used, in some 60 international Business and Management journals published by MCB University Press in the UK.