Professor Mariette Coetzee is an associate professor in the Department of Human Resource Management. She completed a Bachelor’s, Honors degree (cum laude) Master’s and Doctoral degree.

Prof Coetzee started her academic career at Technikon Pretoria as a Lecturer in Human Resource Management in 1994. She joined Unisa in the School of Management Sciences in 1997 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2008. In September 2018 she was appointed as the Acting Chairperson of the Department.

During her employ at Unisa she served as the Deputy COD for the HRM Department, Chair of the Department, Programme Manager for Short Learning Programmes and currently she is the Manager of the Centre for Business Management and Short Learning programmes offered by the College for Economic and Management Sciences. She has been appointed as the Non-examining chair for doctoral students and acts as supervisor for several masters’ and doctoral students in the field of Human Resource Management and Remuneration Management.

She published several articles and is the author and co-author of several books on Human Resource Management and Remuneration. She presented numerous papers at local and international conferences.

She serves as a member and leader in committees such as the Unisa Short Learning Programme committee (USLPC) and the College’s short learning programmes, Tuition and Research committees.

She is an External Examiner for the University of North West, University of Pretoria, University of Cape Town, Open University of Mauritius and Bharathidasan University in India. She is also a Peer Reviewer of articles for accredited journals (SAJHRM, SAJEMS, ActCommerci, Journal of Industrial Psychology and SAIMS).

Prof Coetzee has been appointed by the President to serve as a Commissioner of the Independent Commission for the Remuneration of Public Office Bearers on 15 November 2019.