Dr Darius Pfitzner

Biography

Dr Darius Pfitzner is a longstanding and well-respected member of the CDU Business School. He is currently a Senior Lecturer and Chair of the Teaching and Learning Committee (T&L). Alongside of the important task of teaching postgraduate and undergraduate units he is currently the lead in the redevelopment and accreditation of the Bachelor of Commerce (BCom), Masters of Business Administration (MBA) and Masters of Business Administration Professional Practice (MBAPP). Darius is passionate about applied business practice which has seen him, over the last 25 years, owning and selling several successful businesses. Darius applies his business experience and academic training by bringing leading edge concept and real-world perspectives when teaching units such as operations management, human resource management, e-commerce and organisational behaviour. With a positive supporting attitude, Darius encourages students to acquire and maintain a life-long approach to learning and personal development. Darius' experience and qualifications in both business and information technologies has had a significant impact on the success, direction and management of the Business School since 2011. This has seen Darius taking the lead on several significant projects such as the Evolve project, the opening of the Sydney campus, the first third-party delivery arrangement, Vocational Education and Training (VET) to Higher Education (HE) pathways development project, and the reaccreditation of the BCom and MBA in 2013.

Research Interest

.Economic impact of local government support on local market economies. .The relevance of control systems to the successful development of small to medium organisations and impacts of governance, both self-imposed and law, on small to medium organisations. .Improving the outcome of any learning task through the appropriate use of online technologies and appropriate tele-presence technologies. . Improved business performance through the practical application of automated and manual information systems. .HCI (Human Computer Interaction), Learning through interactive task, teaching using interactive autonomous agents, modelling aspects of human cognition during interactive tasks, skill acquisition in HCI, cognitive load management during search tasks, artificial Intelligence.