Sen Sendjaya

Professor Sen Sendjaya

Head of Department

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  • Masters Research or PhD student supervision
  • Media enquiries
  • Collaborative projects
  • Industry Projects

About

Sen Sendjaya is a Professor of Leadership and Management, and Head of the Department of Management & Organisations at the School of Management, RMIT University. Prior to joining RMIT in 2024, he held various leadership roles at Swinburne and Monash University. He spearheaded NOBLE (Network for Organisational Behaviour and Leadership Enquiry), a dynamic research group that advances the knowledge and practice of how individuals and teams interact, influence, and innovate in contemporary organisations.  

A leading scholar on servant leadership, Sen's research has appeared in prominent journals such as The Leadership Quarterly, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Vocational Behaviour, Journal of Business Ethics, as well as five books that he authored or edited. His research areas of interest include servant leadership, leadership development, and various OB topics including identity, diversity, spirituality.

Sen is the creator of the Servant Leadership Behaviour Scale (SLBS), a widely used psychometric measure to inform leadership selection, assessment, and training in organisations. He engages with senior leaders from various sectors (i.e., government, transportation, finance, health, higher education, not-for-profit, and church), leveraging their capacities to produce deep and lasting impacts on their followers and organisation, through executive education and corporate workshops both in Australia and overseas.

Research fields

  • 350707 Leadership
  • 350710 Organisational behaviour

UN sustainable development goals

  • 3 Good Health and Well Being
  • 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth
  • 4 Quality Education

Supervisor projects

  • Organisational change in the hospitality sector: The interrelationship among leadership, artificial intelligence and employee's innovative behaviour
  • 27 Mar 2025
  • Interim Leadership: Selection, Socialization, Success, and Succession Toward an Evidence-based Process Model
  • 10 May 2024

Research interests

Servant Leadership, Leadership Development; Leader Identity; Leadership Diversity

Initiatives and links

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Acknowledgement of Country

RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.

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